Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken Society and Culture Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde Society and Culture
But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does
not change his mind.
-- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and
cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
-- Tom Robbins Society and Culture Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge Society and Culture
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi "I'll endorse with my name any of the following; clothing AC-DC, cigarettes, small tapes, sound equipment, ROCK N' ROLL RECORDS, anything, film, and film equipment, Food, Helium, Whips, MONEY!!" (And Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf Society and Culture "The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only th Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness
are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser
tha "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Society and Culture
"I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always send them a plant to wish them well. Of course, it's a cactus." (Norman B A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan Society and Culture blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to
get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
-- Billie Holliday Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller Society and Culture
If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 Beginning in February 1976 your assistance benefits will be discontinued ... Reason: it has been
reported to our office that you expired on January 1, 1976.
-- excerpt from a letter, Illinois Depart Society and Culture "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his
life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.
-- Francois Cavanna Society and Culture
If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius "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) "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne "I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) Society and Culture If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 Society and Culture
Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind
woman.
-- S. T. Coleridge Society and Culture Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it.
-- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long "To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) Society and Culture
"Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up
between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever.
-- Virginia Woolf Man and wife make one fool. Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu Society and Culture "Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation." (Larry Flynt) The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. 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
Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! 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 "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle Society and Culture A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby
see only a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney and continue on their way.
-- Vincent Van Gogh Society and Culture
"Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
-- Alphonse Allais Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
-- Oscar Wilde "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Society and Culture Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell Society and Culture
This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
-- Chekhov Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken Society and Culture I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong
and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny
is but th Society and Culture
