Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
-- Anonymous "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine; as he
who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me.
-- Thomas Jefferson Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier Society and Culture All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
-- George Clemenceau It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith Society and Culture
"Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt 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 We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) Society and Culture Saying that Windows95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and
believing you've witnessed the second coming.
-- Guy Kawasaki Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein "Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to t Society and Culture
A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers Society and Culture "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student Society and Culture
I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. we are for the most part
more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.
-- Thoreau Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous "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) "I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos--especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom ... Rather than starting inside, I start ou Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling Society and Culture Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries Society and Culture
"Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are.
-- Gore Vidal An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each
other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's
nerves For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely
unnatural condition.
-- Robert Briffault 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 You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward Society and Culture
Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
-- Charles Pierce "Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take
her off his hands.
-- Sacha Guitry We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw Society and Culture What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine 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 A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere Society and Culture
Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to
learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
-- Michel de Montaigne Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion Society and Culture My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the
slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional
convi If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-- Dorothy Parker Society and Culture
We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) Society and Culture It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) Society and Culture
The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin Society and Culture I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig
deep into the actual and get something out of that - this doubtless is the right way to live.
-- H Society and Culture
"Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each
other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's
nerves Society and Culture The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde Society and Culture
I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
-- Mother Teresa The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other
is ready.
-- Henry David Thoreau The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be
closed for any other business.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) Society and Culture Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm "We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) Society and Culture
