To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
-- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous Society and Culture Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind
and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the
coachin "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-- Groucho Marx Society and Culture
"Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
-- Sigmund Freud It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. Society and Culture Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
-- George Santayana In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. Society and Culture
blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb Society and Culture 2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time.
-- inside of a Pepsi cap I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
write better.
- A. J. Liebling "The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is n Society and Culture
Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.
-- Georges Danton, to his executioner Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
-- Anonymous A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from
both sides.
-- Margaret Thatcher Society and Culture My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
bathroom in the middle of it.
-- Nick Mirov Society and Culture
Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't
take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates...
-- Anonymous A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What
do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came
back with ano 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 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 liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) Society and Culture Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu "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
"People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold." (Richard Thalheimer, president, The All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has
come.
-- Victor Hugo "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) Society and Culture "To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) >From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some
day I intend reading it.
-- Groucho Marx When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Society and Culture
Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins "Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Society and Culture Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other
friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things:
and in that "If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) Society and Culture
There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!
-- Calvin "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) "The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." (George Bernar I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton Society and Culture No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
- William Jennings Bryan "Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson Society and Culture
"Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or
failure has been dependent on the one he used most.
-- George R. Kirkpatrick "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) 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 All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it
is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer Society and Culture The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of
them, it's considered to be your style.
-- Fred Astaire In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent...
-- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported
in a contemporary "American Scholar" I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
- Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable
statues Society and Culture
"One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
-- Anonymous Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Guitry Society and Culture If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent...
-- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported
in a contemporary "American Scholar" I do not see the EEC as a great love affair. It is more like nine desperate middle-ages couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope. -- Tynan Society and Culture
Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the
consequences.
-- Isadora Duncan Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a
thing to be acheived.
-- William Jennings Bryant If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
-- Maya Angelou "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind
and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the
coachin Society and Culture I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to
get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
-- Billie Holliday Society and Culture
