Rising Sun Club - A club for people who are interested in Far East, especially Japanese, art, culture and language.
"Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac Organizations "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous Organizations
"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) Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
-- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
car.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) Organizations For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good
results: drag behind car through puddles, blow-dry on roofrack.
-- Laundry instructions on a shirt "Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) "If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." (Albert Einstein) Organizations
My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) Organizations The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara Organizations
"There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
- Samuel Palmer Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through
self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
-- Helen Keller Organizations What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crowf Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen Organizations
I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how
to make it interesting.
-- Milton Berle, when called to the microphone at the 2nd Annual Comedians Hal "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Organizations "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde Organizations
Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) "I should reproach him for not giving us enough evidence." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970, what he would say to God if they 'met') "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) Organizations "Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it." (Colin Powell) The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield Organizations
"If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be
sacrificed to expediency.
-- W. Somerset Maugham "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
-- Samuel Johnson Organizations When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
- Paul Erdos You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room
enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.
-- Fred Allen Organizations
The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
-- Oliver Herford "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery "A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Organizations Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person that loves you
enough chance to love you enough.
-- Dinah Shore To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves
beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
-- Al Rogers, Global SchoolHouse Netw Organizations
For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate,
the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
-- Rainer Maria Ril If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
neighborhood.
-- Maya Angelou A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx Organizations Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. 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 I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again.
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show Organizations
"As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of
mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
-- Rita Mae Brown Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to
realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and
grie Organizations "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the
writing will be just as it should be.
-- Mark Twain You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.
-- American Proverb Organizations
The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in
opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
-- Sydney Smith No other success can compensate for failure in the home.
-- David O. McKay, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Advice to parents at General Conference of he
LDS Church, April, 1964 "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked
me in the cellar.
-- Anonymous Organizations "Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 Organizations
