There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley
Temple could do it at the age of four.
-- Katharine Hepburn To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its
prime function of looking forward.
-- Margaret Fairless Barber "Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected..." (Chuck Jones) "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Society and Culture Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
-- Chekhov "I put on an act sometimes, and people think I'm insensitive. Really, it's like a kind of armor because I'm too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I' Society and Culture
There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
-- Albert Einstein Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine Society and Culture I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all
the time. That would be hypocrisy.
-- Oscar Wilde "God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest Society and Culture
"Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.
-- Anonymous Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth 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 Society and Culture Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons Society and Culture
Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give. -- Cass Daley I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to
know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.
- Clarence Darrow, Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the
second, "For my best friend."
-- Anonymous Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu Society and Culture We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx "Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer Society and Culture
"Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.
- Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep
up with software demands To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
--Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" Society and Culture University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley Society and Culture
You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes
time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.
-- Fred Astaire "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above
weakness Society and Culture The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have
to shave twice a day.
-- Adlai Stevenson Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through
self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
-- Helen Keller He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill Society and Culture
"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 Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford 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
Uncl "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Society and Culture Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx Society and Culture
It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw 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 "If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) "Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous Society and Culture An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first
comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last Society and Culture
A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
-- Samuel Johnson Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine Society and Culture I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) Society and Culture
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 The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
-- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.
-- Anonymous Society and Culture Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
-- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth Society and Culture
Man and wife make one fool. I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates Society and Culture All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson
articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are
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