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It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if
he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door
and just visit now and then.
-- Katharine Hepburn If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren Society and Culture Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something
different.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
-- Oscar Wilde, dying words Society and Culture
"Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-- Richard Bach A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton "People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold." (Richard Thalheimer, president, The The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Society and Culture "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
-- Neils Bohr Society and Culture
If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. The west wasn't won on salad.
-- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost "If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you t Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. Society and Culture Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) Society and Culture
"It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken "One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Louis Berlioz There is more to life than increasing its speed.
-- Gandhi Society and Culture Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?
-- Michael Meissner Society and Culture
"Frank and explicit; that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others." (Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil) A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who
marries a man to reform him.
-- Elbert Hubbard A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin Society and Culture A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwile careers in the
street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack
of u Society and Culture
Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other
is ready.
-- Henry David Thoreau Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
-- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) Society and Culture If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West Society and Culture
I tried a mail order bride, once, but she was damaged in the mail, and I had to return the unused part for my full refund. Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
-- Christopher Morley Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the
top.
-- Ed Abbey Society and Culture History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One
looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our
human "Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) Society and Culture
Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) "Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. Society and Culture People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward Society and Culture
Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill 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 We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings Society and Culture "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not
"Eureka!", but "That's funny..."
-- Isaac Asimov 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 Society and Culture
"People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement
speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have
th All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards Society and Culture I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain "See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and "I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear ... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived." (Rabbi H Society and Culture
... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more
aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since
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 "Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected..." (Chuck Jones) Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy Society and Culture "To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis Society and Culture
