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For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. Society and Culture "See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy.
-- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) Society and Culture
In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
-- John Adams, dying words "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with
the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
-- Cynthia Heimel 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 "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-- Samuel Butler I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward Society and Culture
"God is dead: but considering the state Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom) Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-
proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe
is "Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
what you are getting.
-- Anonymous Society and Culture A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey "The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the
opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
-- Oscar W Society and Culture
Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they
oppose it.
-- Sigmund Freud The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo "The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Society and Culture The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called
marriage.
-- James Holt McGavran "Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) Society and Culture
I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject,
when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron
scumbags dev I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-- Dorothy Parker blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find
that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our
pain Society and Culture History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country
could do under first-class management.
-- Senator Soaper Society and Culture
Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
- Sir Winston Churchill Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or
theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
-- George Santayana "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) Society and Culture The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein Society and Culture
I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-- Dorothy Parker "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn
themselves to a life of vinegar.
-- Countess of Blessington In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves
beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
-- Al Rogers, Global SchoolHouse Netw Society and Culture "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to
criticize others.
-- H. Jackson Brown Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
-- Albert Einstein Society and Culture
"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) History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde Society and Culture You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we
were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
-- John Stuart Mill Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
-- Vladimir Nabokov Society and Culture
"Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) "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) It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin Society and Culture If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner 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
apparently based Society and Culture
Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
-- Arthur C. Coxe "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) Society and Culture Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw Society and Culture
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 "No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." (Henry B. Adams) Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are
capable of being.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
-- Maya Angelou Society and Culture The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll 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 Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
-- Rory Bremner Society and Culture
