"It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
-- Igor Stravinsky "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) Society and Culture And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.
-- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the
House Bank scandal Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce Society and Culture
The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to
substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
-- Iris Murdoch "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Society and Culture My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Society and Culture
Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry
that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
-- Dale Carnegie Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea.
-- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone "Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) Society and Culture I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings "I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always send them a plant to wish them well. Of course, it's a cactus." (Norman B "The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." (Albert Camus) Society and Culture
People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only
make $500,000.
-- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 Tear open packet, unfold and use.
-- Directions on moist towelette package Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
-- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 Society and Culture All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless 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 Society and Culture
"... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman Society and Culture The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
-- Lord Dewar Society and Culture
Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes
your wife.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) Society and Culture "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman Society and Culture
All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm
upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in
the palm 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 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 It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes Society and Culture "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) Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Society and Culture
You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo 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 Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. Society and Culture Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare Society and Culture
To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle
enough of them.
-- Flannery O'Connor Society and Culture We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room
enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.
-- Fred Allen "Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) Society and Culture
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for
comprehensive health care during a candidates' forum, said he supported "erection-to-
resurrection" coverage. He later a Society and Culture Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard 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 Society and Culture
May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm
upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in
the palm "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Boies Penrose, 1931 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 Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous Society and Culture I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
-- Nathan Hale The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Society and Culture
