What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. "I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) Society and Culture "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken Society and Culture
The telephone company is urging people to *please* not use the telephone unless it is absolutely
necessary in order to keep the lines open for emergency personnel. We'll be right back after this
bre "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
--Loesje Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Society and Culture A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to
know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.
- Clarence Darrow, Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you
together, but do so with all your heart.
-- Marcus Aurelius Society and Culture
"People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe 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 The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Society and Culture Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
pure ignorance?
-- Holbrook Jackson Society and Culture
I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Society and Culture There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi "Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler Society and Culture
A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
- Bill Hirst If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do
what he was afraid he couldn't do.
-- Henry Ford Society and Culture We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill Society and Culture
By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. -- Socrates "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) "Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein Society and Culture And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) Society and Culture
"In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) "Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." (Gertrude Stein) "Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no
religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear
of Society and Culture Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Louis Berlioz "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley Society and Culture
Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the
next meal would come from.
-- Peter F. Drucker 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 "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat Society and Culture One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles 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 "I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) Society and Culture
The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
-- Oliver Herford 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) When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) Society and Culture
May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.
- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life "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) All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery
increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control
futur If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Society and Culture And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same
joke and still feel lonely.
-- T. S. Eliot "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) Society and Culture
The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause
we believe to be just.
-- Abraham Lincoln There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
-- Oscar Wilde It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are
romantic dreamers and actually believe that estrogenic skin cream must do something or they
couldn't cha "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Society and Culture Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky Society and Culture
