Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie Society and Culture The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green Society and Culture
Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
-- Erica Jong Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you
get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a
"The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) Society and Culture "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous Society and Culture
There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely
to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage,
he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it.
-- Helen Roland I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." (Alexander Pope) 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) "And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at
the same time.
- Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair Society and Culture
The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) "It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books--what other men do not say in whole books." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols) Society and Culture He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Society and Culture
"The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X Society and Culture Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc
jockey is not allowed to talk.
-- Fran Lebowitz You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers Society and Culture
Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
-- Walt Disney 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 Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr "Drugs have done a lot of good. A lot of good songs have been written. 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. 'Dark Side of the Moon?' 100 dead kids. At least that many were conceived by people listening Society and Culture Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law "The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) Society and Culture
Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are
certain, they do not refer to reality.
-- Albert Einstein The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
-- G. K. Chesterton 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. A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell Society and Culture All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of
them, it's considered to be your style.
-- Fred Astaire Society and Culture
Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger Society and Culture Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician 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
For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
-- Leslie Jeanne Sahler Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings "For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake Society and Culture If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin Society and Culture
Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson Silence is argument carried out by other means.
- ErnestoCheGuevara Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe Society and Culture The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins 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
"When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) Society and Culture Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the
really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
-- Mark Twain Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In
this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
-- Marianne Williamson Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. Society and Culture
