Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III Goodbye, Everybody!
-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
history.
-- George Bernard Shaw "I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) Culture and Arts To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
reputation.
-- Oscar Wilde If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet
enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p Culture and Arts
The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.
-- Sigmund Freud I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the
table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the
disg "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Culture and Arts Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards "I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear ... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived." (Rabbi H Culture and Arts
I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
-- Igor Stravinsky Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson Culture and Arts "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Culture and Arts
"Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes
your wife.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire Culture and Arts Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to
help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to
comfort us along "The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz Culture and Arts
Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in
accordance with the dictates of reason.
-- Oscar Wilde The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.
-- Sigmund Freud 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 Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
legislators.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Culture and Arts Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller Culture and Arts
"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
-- Joseph Addison The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I Culture and Arts Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes
your wife.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show "God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch Culture and Arts
Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
-- Robert Benchley The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous Culture and Arts Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner Culture and Arts
"I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
-- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-- Ambrose Bierce I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those
little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Culture and Arts A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no
religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear
of Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) Culture and Arts
"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 Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
-- Hoshang N. Akhtar There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics a Culture and Arts It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would
have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I
didn' One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Culture and Arts
"Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
-- Rita Rudner When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed Culture and Arts "I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in
accordance with the dictates of reason.
-- Oscar Wilde Culture and Arts
A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
-- Publilius Syrus There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers Culture and Arts If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would
be able to endure it.
-- Schopenhauer Not to anticipate is already to moan.
-- Leonardo da Vinci "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) Culture and Arts
