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I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was
doing spying.
-- Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets for spying, in an i He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man
will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
-- Henry Ford Society and Culture Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw Society and Culture
"We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing.
-- George Benard Shaw We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us.
-- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer "Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." (Dave Barry) Society and Culture "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his
cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that
Uncl Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Society and Culture
"The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
-- Charles Pierce "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Society and Culture 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 If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem
mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's
chara Society and Culture
"You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay "Whether it is a black cat or a white cat, as long as it can catch the rat, it is a good cat." (Deng Xiao Ping) Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) 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 "You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem Society and Culture
I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department
store and he asked for my autograph.
-- Shirley Temple Black Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to
vote for Colonel Sanders.
-- Bob Inglis, 1995 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 Society and Culture Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln Society and Culture
The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would
be able to endure it.
-- Schopenhauer No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire Society and Culture Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not
mean his maker, but himself.
-- Dean Inge You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn Society and Culture
If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all
the time. That would be hypocrisy.
-- Oscar Wilde The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because
generally they are the same people.
-- G. K. Chesterton I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan Society and Culture You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde Society and Culture
Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find
out how to do it.
-- Theodore Roosevelt Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg Society and Culture "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman Society and Culture
No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer "Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) Society and Culture You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Society and Culture
I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan "Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation." (Larry Flynt) Society and Culture Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg "Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle Society and Culture
I'll sleep when I'm dead.
- Warren Zevon Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
- Samuel Palmer All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau Society and Culture Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol "The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb Society and Culture
