Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) Society and Culture Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard The west wasn't won on salad.
-- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
-- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight Society and Culture
"Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
-- Alphonse Allais Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
-- Samuel Johnson "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) Society and Culture Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to
substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
-- Iris Murdoch If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.
-- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War Society and Culture
A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) Never moon a werewolf.
-- Mike Binder "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the
first half.
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) Society and Culture The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up
between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever.
-- Virginia Woolf Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) Society and Culture
There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Society and Culture "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) The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson "The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only th Society and Culture
I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson "Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it." (Colin Powell) People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx "The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) Society and Culture Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler "We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain Society and Culture
If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
-- Robert Orben I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.
-- Wayne Gretzky Society and Culture Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
-- Lord Dewar A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He
experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of
optic I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, "I'd like some fries." The girl at the counter said,
"Would you like some fries with that?"
-- Jay Leno Society and Culture
If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry
that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
-- Dale Carnegie It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
-- Mae West "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) Society and Culture Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. "Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) "An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid." (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th earl of) Society and Culture
I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I
was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper.
-- Smith & Jones Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. Society and Culture Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim
to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire.
-- Gen. George If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways
to be, you know that there are...
-- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric "The feminists used to say that chivalry and ladyhood were ways of keeping women down and preventing them from standing toe to toe with the guys. Now you've got a lot of women saying that if a guy is Society and Culture
That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton 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 Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
-- Karl Wallenda Society and Culture Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire Society and Culture
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-- Samuel Butler The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
time Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the
consequences.
-- Isadora Duncan Society and Culture It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr Society and Culture
"The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
-- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to
heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need
more supervision.
-- Lynn "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 "Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) Society and Culture "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
-- Publilius Syrus cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
gone beyond that.
-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic Society and Culture
