Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
-- Martin Mull The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines
staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you
ask th Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. "We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li Society and Culture "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth Society and Culture
When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-- Sacha Guitry The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard Society and Culture The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
-- Publilius Syrus Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
-- Elbert Hubbard Society and Culture
Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and
joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not
as In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how
many can get through to you.
-- Mortimer J. Adler Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not
impress the neighbors as being very much.
-- Zora Neale Hurston "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) "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Society and Culture You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being
gummed by a newt. It doesn't actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle.
-- Molly Ivins Society and Culture
"Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra) The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy
together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back
on at A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman "Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored..." (Herman Melville, It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein Society and Culture 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 People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton Society and Culture
"The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of
pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.
-- Lyster There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
-- Albert Einstein When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
-- Ernest Hemingway Society and Culture "To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting Society and Culture
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 A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
-- Red Buttons "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers Society and Culture "Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman
is one who can find such a man.
-- Lana Turner Society and Culture
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are
capable of being.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous "Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
neighborhood.
-- Maya Angelou What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry Society and Culture Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his
cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that
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If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
-- James McNeill Whistler "A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous
and dreadful.
-- Samuel Johnson I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
-- Francois-Auguste Rodin, when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) Society and Culture Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) Society and Culture
Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton Society and Culture "I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink 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
We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we
respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
-- H. L. Mencken Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker
room is the temple where they worship arrested development.
-- Russell Baker I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields Society and Culture It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other
is ready.
-- Henry David Thoreau I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Indeed, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all.
-- Ogden Nash, Song of the Open Road, 1945 Society and Culture
Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 Society and Culture Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In
this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
-- Marianne Williamson And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Society and Culture
