You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family.
-- Navaho saying I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and
members of the Senate.
-- Dan Quayle, Former Vice-President Society and Culture "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY Society and Culture
Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be
built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
-- Anne S Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY Society and Culture Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By
giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you
will Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu Society and Culture
Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
-- Pablo Picasso If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils "Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) "Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em." (William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, II:5) Society and Culture "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart Society and Culture
Man and wife make one fool. "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley
Temple could do it at the age of four.
-- Katharine Hepburn Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
- James Stephens Society and Culture A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their
graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort.
-- Sydney Smith Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides Society and Culture
Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
-- Rory Bremner My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow I just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like
a black mistake.
-- D. H. Lawrence Society and Culture I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was
doing spying.
-- Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets for spying, in an i "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper Society and Culture
Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
-- Samuel Johnson Society and Culture Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having
passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it.
-- Anonymous Society and Culture
"Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes
in search of martyrdom is that the former expresses his idea most fully in death while the latter
really Society and Culture blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall
looking frantic.
-- Steven Wright "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) Society and Culture
Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without
feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex,
the ugl "The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.
-- John Murray You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Society and Culture The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do
its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.
-- "In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." (Eric Hoffer) Society and Culture
University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
-- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting
married There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein "Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) Society and Culture "It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde Society and Culture
"Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) "Those who feel certainty are stupid and those with any imagination or understanding are filled with doubt and indecision." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
-- Ken Dodd People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard Society and Culture The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. Society and Culture
The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind
woman.
-- S. T. Coleridge The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we
respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
-- H. L. Mencken Society and Culture God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at
the same time.
- Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" Society and Culture
