CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the
table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the
disg The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My
answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer
to that would be Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz Society and Culture Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) Society and Culture
"People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold." (Richard Thalheimer, president, The As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action
of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already
were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Dear Mrs, Mr, Miss, or Mr and Mrs Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action. -- C "The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Society and Culture "A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay "Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) Society and Culture
Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?
-- Michael Meissner Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre I worship the quicksand he walks in.
- Art Buchwald The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than
the procreation of children.
-- Thornton Wilder 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 Society and Culture It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein Society and Culture
There is more to life than increasing its speed.
-- Gandhi Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
-- Leslie Jeanne Sahler The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner Never moon a werewolf.
-- Mike Binder Society and Culture If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
-- Maya Angelou "If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair." (Samuel Johnson) "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) Society and Culture
UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
-- George Jean Nathan The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton 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 "God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a
holding pattern over Philadelphia.
-- Judith Viorst When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment... it's
exciting to have a real crisis on your hands.
-- Margaret Thatcher, on the Falklands Conflict Society and Culture
Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways
to be, you know that there are...
-- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President Society and Culture Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying "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) It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West Society and Culture
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 People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy
the waking hours much more.
-- Woody Allen The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
-- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 Society and Culture "We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song Society and Culture
A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein "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) "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
-- Anonymous Society and Culture You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. "Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein Society and Culture
"When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to
help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to
comfort us along Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
-- Tom Robbins Society and Culture Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
- Paul Erdos All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein Society and Culture
"Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 Silence is argument carried out by other means.
- ErnestoCheGuevara I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) Society and Culture The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away,
the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas Society and Culture
Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler "To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard Society and Culture Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other
friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things:
and in that Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes
your wife.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Society and Culture
