I worship the quicksand he walks in.
- Art Buchwald Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
-- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton Society and Culture "Those who feel certainty are stupid and those with any imagination or understanding are filled with doubt and indecision." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-- Gilda Radner The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Society and Culture
"The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large
organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.
-- Dave Barry All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it
is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer Society and Culture Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you
have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.
-- Aldous Huxley I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw Society and Culture
"Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France Society and Culture Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan Society and Culture
"What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature." (Francois Marie Ar The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes
in search of martyrdom is that the former expresses his idea most fully in death while the latter
really Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West Society and Culture You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. Society and Culture
"Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind
and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the
coachin Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery Society and Culture "Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em." (William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, II:5) "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was
60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is.
-- Ellen DeGeneres Society and Culture
If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
-- Elvis Presley Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and
cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
-- Tom Robbins Society and Culture "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the
commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete
answer. In fact, women's total ins There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to
be a coincidence.
-- Jeremy S. Anderson Society and Culture
The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
it.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson 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 Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anonymous Society and Culture By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) "In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) Society and Culture
Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West Society and Culture 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 Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb Society and Culture
Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the
custom of shaving.
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Society and Culture I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to
me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
-- Lucille Ball When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown Society and Culture
You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of
suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room.
-- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 Society and Culture Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
-- Albert Einstein Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker 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 Society and Culture
Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of
fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality
and The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind
woman.
-- S. T. Coleridge "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) 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 The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.
-- Mark Twain "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Society and Culture
