"The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) "I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker 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.
-- Crow In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken Society and Culture Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and
therefore congenial to it.
-- G. K. Chesterton Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
-- Benjamin Disraeli What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Society and Culture
If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if
he finds her.
-- Benjamin Tillett If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw Society and Culture Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) Society and Culture
If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr "Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours." (Dale Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin "I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra Society and Culture With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly good I thee endow.
-- Wedding Vow, Book of Common Prayer Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson "The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi Society and Culture
"Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) 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 Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland "I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) "I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) Society and Culture I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Steven Wright Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie Society and Culture
A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh Society and Culture Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman Correction: Instead of being arrested, as we stated, for kicking his wife down a flight of stairs and hurling a lighted kerosene lamp after her, the Rev. James P. Wellman died unmarried four years ago We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun Society and Culture
I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be
built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
-- Anne S "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Society and Culture "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Well, I think that it's a- it's had some difficult times but I think we have- we, I think, have been able
to make some very good progress and it's- I would say that it's- it's- it's delightful that w I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White Society and Culture
Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary
to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.'
-- Bierce, A Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise Society and Culture 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 I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never
be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
-- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can
only read the title.
-- Virginia Woolf Society and Culture
People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are
certain, they do not refer to reality.
-- Albert Einstein The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
bad ones.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Society and Culture Weaseling out of things is good. It's what separates us from the other animals....except weasels.
-- Homer Simpson, character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the
really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
-- Mark Twain Society and Culture
I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
-- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the
faculty of laughter.
-- Joseph Addison Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
-- George Saunders - last words Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does
not change his mind.
-- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. -- Socrates Society and Culture Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. Society and Culture
He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
-- J. Heller The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it.
-- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi Society and Culture When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are
difficult.
-- Lucius Anneaus Seneca Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham Society and Culture
Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own
language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
-- Robert M. Pirsig Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth Society and Culture We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi "You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) Society and Culture
