"Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle Society and Culture "What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature." (Francois Marie Ar Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde Society and Culture
As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley "Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. Society and Culture Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green Society and Culture
"Friends are those people who know the words to the song in your heart and sing them back to you when you have forgotten the words." (Anonymous) "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been
widely regarded as a bad move.
-- Douglas Adams Society and Culture "In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Go away...I'm alright.
-- H. G. Wells, dying words Society and Culture
"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) Society and Culture 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 The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their
graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort.
-- Sydney Smith Society and Culture
Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
-- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber "Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) Society and Culture Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a
holding pattern over Philadelphia.
-- Judith Viorst Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf "If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." (Albert Einstein) Society and Culture
Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show Study men, not historians.
-- Harry Truman A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson No other success can compensate for failure in the home.
-- David O. McKay, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Advice to parents at General Conference of he
LDS Church, April, 1964 Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the
second, "For my best friend."
-- Anonymous Society and Culture Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
-- Oscar Wilde In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. Society and Culture
There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
-- Oscar Wilde In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is
simply one of those things which happen from time to time.
-- Edward P. Tryon The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted
in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism.
-- Heidi Hartmann, The Unha "Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin Society and Culture "The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest Society and Culture
Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker "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 highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Society and Culture "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other
is ready.
-- Henry David Thoreau Goodbye, Everybody!
-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. Society and Culture
You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman 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 I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork
picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
-- Tom Stoppard I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was
doing spying.
-- Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets for spying, in an i 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 that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous Society and Culture
"Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw "One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "'Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!'" (Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass) There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Society and Culture The telephone company is urging people to *please* not use the telephone unless it is absolutely
necessary in order to keep the lines open for emergency personnel. We'll be right back after this
bre The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely
pleased to announce the appointment of David Steele to the post.
-- Philip Streifer, Superintendent Society and Culture
Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwile careers in the
street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack
of u Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg "The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung Society and Culture Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
-- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) "All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) Society and Culture
