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Anything too stupid to be said, is sung.
-- Voltaire Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker 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 Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they
study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.
-- Gerald Early, writer, baseball do Society and Culture "A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain Society and Culture
Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way
to bet.
-- Damon Runyan Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they
can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and
stupid from What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy Society and Culture Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
-- Robert Orben I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Society and Culture
"Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
-- Anonymous There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the
instrument plays itself.
-- Johann Sebastian Bach Society and Culture I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous Society and Culture
Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee Society and Culture "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Society and Culture
"The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Society and Culture My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.
-- Tom Robbins I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy.
-- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board Society and Culture
Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a
minute, it's longer than any hour. That is relativity.
-- Albert Einstein The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
bad ones.
-- W. Somerset Maugham The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
- George Bernard Shaw Society and Culture A White House well filled, a little peanut field well tilled, and a wife who will go to the Bronx are
great riches.
-- Poor Jimmy's Almanac If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa "If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) Society and Culture
Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in
bed with her.
-- Lenny Bruce Society and Culture Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
pure ignorance?
-- Holbrook Jackson Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) Society and Culture
Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically!
-- Steven Wright I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
- Bill Hirst If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
-- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Society and Culture We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
-- Woodrow Wyatt Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW Society and Culture
The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on
tormenting the generations to come.
-- Montesquieu 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 "Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) "One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) Society and Culture Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort Society and Culture
You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward "Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored..." (Herman Melville, "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) Society and Culture The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
-- Anonymous Society and Culture
Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little
plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.
-- Ha "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Society and Culture If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal Society and Culture
