We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin "The bite of conscience, like the bite of a dog into a stone, is a stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would not live forever, because
we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live
forever, If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince Society and Culture The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore
exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.
-- Slavoj Zizek "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford Society and Culture
"A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Society and Culture There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another
to the world.
-- Antonio Machado "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) "I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) Society and Culture
When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already
were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details." (Andy Warhol, America, 1985) It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. Society and Culture Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown Society and Culture
"He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) >From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea--written in red on every
beachhead form Australia to Tokyo--There is no substitute for victory!
-- General Douglas MacArthur Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words Society and Culture If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called
marriage.
-- James Holt McGavran I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz Society and Culture
Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
-- Plutarch There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Society and Culture Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong
and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny
is but th "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Society and Culture
Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce "Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) Society and Culture There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries Society and Culture
I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
-- Adela Rogers St. John Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra Society and Culture The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
car.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Spinster: A bachelor's wife. Society and Culture
The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves
great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates
the Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large
organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.
-- Dave Barry If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth Society and Culture A White House well filled, a little peanut field well tilled, and a wife who will go to the Bronx are
great riches.
-- Poor Jimmy's Almanac Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-- Ambrose Bierce Society and Culture
He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer "Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels Society and Culture "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Society and Culture
If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of
something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than
cocaine.
"Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) "Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the
time by watching the second hand of a clock.
-- Ben Hecht Society and Culture People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to
passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are . . .
grand Society and Culture
If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin "Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) 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 The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni Society and Culture "The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-- Stephen Covey Society and Culture
