Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) Society and Culture There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you
yourself have altered.
-- Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger Society and Culture
"I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal 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 The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
bureaucracy won't.
-- Hyman Rickover Society and Culture English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown Society and Culture
The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman 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. Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
-- Hoshang N. Akhtar Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost Society and Culture I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back.
-- Henny Youngman The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett Society and Culture
We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
-- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. Society and Culture Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset "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 "I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos--especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom ... Rather than starting inside, I start ou Society and Culture
Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is
merely a good excuse not to play football.
-- Fran Lebowitz Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael Society and Culture People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover Society and Culture
Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
-- Robert A. Humphrey "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
-- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life "A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) Society and Culture It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
-- Oscar Wilde, dying words Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
-- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting
married Society and Culture
Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) "Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops
were side by side in the Italian village of Cremona. First were the Amatis, and outside their shop
hung "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) Society and Culture Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw 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 Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard Society and Culture
Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
-- Booker T. Washington Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles Society and Culture Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes
some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny.
-- George To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl Society and Culture
"A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) 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 Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does
come, we no longer exist.
-- Epicurus Society and Culture I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly Society and Culture
The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman Society and Culture "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
write better.
- A. J. Liebling Society and Culture
Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another
to the world.
-- Antonio Machado "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone Society and Culture "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
-- Byrd Baggett Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye Society and Culture
