There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux "The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
-- Emiliano Zapata Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin Society and Culture "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The
gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
-- Thomas Arnold Bennet Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. Society and Culture
If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
one.
-- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore
exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.
-- Slavoj Zizek Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife Society and Culture Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Borge 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) "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
-- Herbert Westren Turnbull While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) Society and Culture Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things.
-- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" 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 To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson Society and Culture
To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation.
-- Latin Proverb I have a daughter who goes to SMU. She could've gone to UCLA here in California, but it's one
more letter she'd have to remember.
-- Shecky Greene A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it;
whenever you're right, shut up.
-- Ogden Nash You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl Society and Culture When Baby's cries grew hard to bear I popped him in the Frigidaire. I never would have done so if
I'd known that he'd be frozen stiff. My wife said, "George, I'm so unhappy! Our darling's now
comple The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived
in this century. I didn't live in this century.
-- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Society and Culture
The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not,
the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms
with It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a
natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.
-- General Douglas MacArthur No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. Society and Culture "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) 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 It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide Society and Culture
The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
-- Kenneth H. Blanchard "The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." (George Bernar You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous Society and Culture There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics a "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken Society and Culture
Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais 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 Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? Society and Culture No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman Society and Culture
We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put
over my kitchen table.
-- Rodney Dangerfield If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry
that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
-- Dale Carnegie No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Society and Culture He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner Society and Culture
May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Society and Culture The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous Society and Culture
Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it,
there will be a fish.
-- Ovid Just buy a box of popcorn and a Coca-Cola and sit back and watch.
-- James Carville, Clinton advisor, offering advice for Democrats on the term-limits vote in the
House Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw Society and Culture "Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things!
-- Tom Lehrer "To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Society and Culture
Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed.
They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position.
-- John Hogan, Commonwealth We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) Society and Culture He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill 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 "Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) Society and Culture
