A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) We are the echo of the future.
-- W. S. Merwin There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Society and Culture The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way
of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
- Sir Winston Churchill Society and Culture
When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want,
and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.
-- Fred Astaire "I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) Society and Culture I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-- Dorothy Parker "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the
consequences.
-- Isadora Duncan Society and Culture
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 Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.
-- Georges Danton, to his executioner "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau Society and Culture In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would
be doing if he were alive today?
1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War.
2) Advising the President.
3) D Society and Culture
It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
-- Leslie Jeanne Sahler Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There
are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's
reall 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 Society and Culture It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince In view of all the deadly computer viruses that have been spreading lately, Weekend Update
would like to remind you: when you link up to another computer, you're linking up to every
computer that th 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 Society and Culture
Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
-- Erica Jong "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward Society and Culture Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
time "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
Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison "Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) 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 "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) Society and Culture Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and
retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming 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 Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject,
when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron
scumbags dev "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
and bought jewelry.
-- Rita Rudner Society and Culture Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words "Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god." (Jean Rostand) Society and Culture
Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl could want in her life, except for good
taste in men!
-- Wedding Toast Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
-- Albert Einstein I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde "Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) Society and Culture I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including:
* Both of your socks should always be the same color
* Or they should at least both be fairly dark
-- Dave Barry Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically,
ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion.
-- Fred Rogers, parody of "Row, row, row your boa "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Society and Culture
Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. "The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
cough.
-- Pearl Williams In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton Society and Culture [You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson 2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time.
-- inside of a Pepsi cap Society and Culture
He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous "If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I ask
is a chance."
-- Anon. Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle Society and Culture "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh Society and Culture
Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert "Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain "Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan Society and Culture The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of
mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
-- Rita Mae Brown 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 A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell Society and Culture
