With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln "I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so Amer We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James Society and Culture Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
-- Rita Rudner I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius Society and Culture
This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises,
promotions, and other signs of appreciation.
-- Anonymous Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the
false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
-- Salvador Dali The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-- Richard Bach Society and Culture "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does
not change his mind.
-- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks Society and Culture
"One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree
to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full
of grac "The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson "For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) Society and Culture "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." (Alexander Pope) Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the
commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete
answer. In fact, women's total ins America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee Society and Culture
"Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
-- Finley Peter Dunne In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not
allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating,
stealing, No other success can compensate for failure in the home.
-- David O. McKay, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Advice to parents at General Conference of he
LDS Church, April, 1964 "'Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!'" (Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass) Society and Culture Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
-- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking
campaign Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason Society and Culture
"Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) When you're away, I'm restless, lonely
Wretched, bored, dejected; only
here's the rub, my darling dear,
I feel the same when you are here.
-- Samuel Hoffenstein "Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Society and Culture If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Society and Culture
Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea.
-- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) Society and Culture Honor lies in honest toil.
-- Grover Cleveland "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright Society and Culture
"Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would
have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I
didn' Golf is a good walk spoiled.
-- Mark Twain If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
-- Roger Babson Society and Culture Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going
to make fun of you.
-- Woody Allen I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
wastes to Third Wo Society and Culture
"True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Indeed, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all.
-- Ogden Nash, Song of the Open Road, 1945 A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
-- Buke Ellington Society and Culture Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Society and Culture
My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth "Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation." (Larry Flynt) "Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." (Gertrude Stein) Society and Culture When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-- Sacha Guitry To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) Society and Culture
Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately
becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in
those tiny toil While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of
our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
-- John Adams Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
-- Anonymous Society and Culture "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) "It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality." (Francois Sagan) "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Society and Culture
"The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all
over it and put your name at the top.
-- English Professor, Ohio University Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
-- Robert Browning It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should
live honourably.
-- Kant, Immanuel Society and Culture "I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) Society and Culture
