Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore:
? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its
duties.
? Work cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
gone beyond that.
-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt Society and Culture Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately
becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in
those tiny toil "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) Society and Culture
Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman Society and Culture Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. Society and Culture
Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all
I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it."
-- Jerry Seinfeld Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of
genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
-- Oscar Wilde Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman Society and Culture After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely
pleased to announce the appointment of David Steele to the post.
-- Philip Streifer, Superintendent Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
- Robert Frost I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
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An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
-- Emiliano Zapata If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.
-- Anonymous Society and Culture The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Society and Culture
Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin "Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) Society and Culture "When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol Society and Culture
Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) "It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute
for life.
-- Andrew Brown Society and Culture Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Society and Culture
blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
- Samuel Palmer The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute
for life.
-- Andrew Brown Society and Culture Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
-- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking
campaign Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
-- Albert Einstein Society and Culture
Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb "Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." (Dylan Thomas) Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take
her off his hands.
-- Sacha Guitry Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde Society and Culture When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
-- Clarence Darrow Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra Society and Culture
"Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that
M&Ms really do melt in your hand...
-- Peter Oakley "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you
a hundre Society and Culture Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham "In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going
to make fun of you.
-- Woody Allen Society and Culture
"The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back.
-- Henny Youngman Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman Society and Culture I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer Society and Culture
"The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature
machine gun.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi "One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-- Sacha Guitry Society and Culture "In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady
in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me.
-- Dick Martin I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein Society and Culture
