The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy
the waking hours much more.
-- Woody Allen I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you
underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The west wasn't won on salad.
-- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 Society and Culture Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara Society and Culture
"A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
-- Polish proverb In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois Society and Culture I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher Society and Culture
If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours The more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
-- Mark Twain "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Society and Culture "To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson Society and Culture
Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) 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 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 A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) Society and Culture
Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
newspapers.
-- Thomas Jefferson Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels Society and Culture "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) 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 "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) Society and Culture
"A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
-- Hoshang N. Akhtar "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) Society and Culture "There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Society and Culture
The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does
not stop until you get into the office.
-- Robert Frost Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito How could they tell?
-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier Society and Culture Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
-- Polish proverb The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein "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 Society and Culture
True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) "The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) Society and Culture Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
automobile.
-- Billy Sunday blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that
no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
-- Paul Dirac Society and Culture
I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would not live forever, because
we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live
forever, Society and Culture Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston Society and Culture
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a
philosopher.
- Socrates The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical
deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
-- Albert Einstein Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless Society and Culture "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem
mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's
chara When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
-- Ernest Hemingway Society and Culture
"Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. "I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. Society and Culture The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
-- Woodrow Wyatt "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Society and Culture
