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Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?
-- Michael Meissner Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier. --H.L. Mencken Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
-- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 Society and Culture The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Society and Culture
"Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) When you're away, I'm restless, lonely
Wretched, bored, dejected; only
here's the rub, my darling dear,
I feel the same when you are here.
-- Samuel Hoffenstein He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw Society and Culture "In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury Society and Culture
A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Facts are the enemy of truth.
- Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate,
the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
-- Rainer Maria Ril Society and Culture The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde Guide to understanding a net.addict's day:
Slow day: didn't have much to do, so spent three hours on usenet.
Busy day: managed to work in three hours of usenet.
Bad day: barely squeezed in three ho "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) Society and Culture
"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) When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't
have done.
-- Malcolm Forbes Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie Society and Culture As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. Society and Culture
If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-- Abraham Lincoln "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore:
? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its
duties.
? Work Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words Society and Culture "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.
-- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 Society and Culture
"Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
-- Terry Cohen "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) I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous Society and Culture There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman Society and Culture
The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy "A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it." (Claude Rains, as Mr. Dryden, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) .. 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 blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) Society and Culture Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson What's new? Most of my wife. We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca Society and Culture
Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. Society and Culture My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no
character.
-- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig "Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats Society and Culture
"Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we
respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
-- H. L. Mencken In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland Society and Culture It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln Society and Culture
If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
-- Publilius Syrus Society and Culture When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor Society and Culture
"If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
-- Publilius Syrus The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper Society and Culture "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) Society and Culture
