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"I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval
of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
-- Henry Miller He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that Society and Culture "If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln Society and Culture
Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person that loves you
enough chance to love you enough.
-- Dinah Shore The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some
simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion.
-- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper Society and Culture It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain Society and Culture
A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted
by a little physical antipathy.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat
guy in the third row exists?
-- Woody Allen The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
-- Bhagava Gita We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle Health food makes me sick.
-- Calvin Trillin Society and Culture Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge Society and Culture
We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song "Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
-- Carl Zwanzig I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in
charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
-- Hen Society and Culture "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) 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 Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde Society and Culture
"Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-- Carl Gustav Jung Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to
criticize others.
-- H. Jackson Brown The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to
passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are . . .
grand Society and Culture If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink Society and Culture
The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette "Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) Society and Culture "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine; as he
who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me.
-- Thomas Jefferson "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) Society and Culture
"Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it,
Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me
de Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
-- Anthony Burgess When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims
of intact ones.
-- Peter DeVries You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra Society and Culture I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
-- Albert Einstein "To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson Society and Culture
Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as
possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had Society and Culture "The feminists used to say that chivalry and ladyhood were ways of keeping women down and preventing them from standing toe to toe with the guys. Now you've got a lot of women saying that if a guy is It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves
great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates
the There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty Society and Culture
"The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) 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 Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
-- Shane Leslie Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.
-- R. Scott Richards Society and Culture >From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud "... adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, quoted in his obituary, Time) "Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms Society and Culture
Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
-- Scott Adams When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
the workmanship.
-- John Renmerde A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw Society and Culture "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't
take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates...
-- Anonymous Society and Culture
You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a
philosopher.
- Socrates Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?
-- Michael Meissner "We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li Society and Culture "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) "Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork
picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
-- Tom Stoppard Society and Culture
