I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer "Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) Society and Culture Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
-- Pablo Picasso Society and Culture
"Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored..." (Herman Melville, Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.
-- R. Scott Richards No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
-- Charles Pierce I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) Society and Culture "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves Society and Culture
Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of
genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 "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 "Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Society and Culture 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 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 Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb Society and Culture
.. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over
myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long
per Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The
premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool.
-- Kelvin Throop I "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) Society and Culture "That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Louis Berlioz 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.
-- Crowf Society and Culture
I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain 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 The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
-- Brian Pickrell Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
-- Margaret Mead The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy
together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back
on at Society and Culture "In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
-- Martin Mull The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich Society and Culture
Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre "I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats." (Woody Allen, in regard to the KKK) Society and Culture A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle Society and Culture
The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the
source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity,
ign 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 When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up
something appropriate and do it.
-- E. W. Howe Society and Culture Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
-- Hermione Gingold "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
-- John Adams, dying words Society and Culture
"A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) "In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") Society and Culture "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST Society and Culture
"Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford "Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss." (Hal Holbrook, Wallstreet) People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!
-- Calvin Society and Culture I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen Society and Culture
I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Establishing yourself, furnishing a house, building up a comfortable existence, and having that menace hanging over your head all the time - no, I prefer to live in hotels, cafés, just passing through "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 "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies Society and Culture
The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window.
You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house.
-- Jean Ke blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
automobile.
-- Billy Sunday English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. Society and Culture I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) Society and Culture
