"I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl could want in her life, except for good
taste in men!
-- Wedding Toast A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman Society and Culture "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 Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) Society and Culture
Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde Society and Culture There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw Society and Culture
If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
- George Bernard Shaw In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein "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) I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
-- Polish proverb Society and Culture Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
-- Anonymous Society and Culture
Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all
over it and put your name at the top.
-- English Professor, Ohio University "A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger Society and Culture "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty Society and Culture
It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning
there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have
people all Go away...I'm alright.
-- H. G. Wells, dying words Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon Society and Culture When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already
were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can
only read the title.
-- Virginia Woolf The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Society and Culture
"We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things.
-- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. Society and Culture Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and
joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not
as I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in
charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
-- Hen To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to
finish without knowing what you have written.
-- Jean Jacques Rousseau Society and Culture
The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.
-- Mark Twain "If I were still a critic, I would loathe knowing the person I was writing about. There's enough of an incestuous relationship between subject and writer." (Manny Farber, American film theorist) Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Society and Culture A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner Society and Culture
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 America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait Marriage is a rest period between romances. "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) Society and Culture "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein Society and Culture
Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce
intelligence.
-- Philo Vance I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde "I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs
long enough."
-- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates Society and Culture It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you
can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist.
-- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I
was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper.
-- Smith & Jones Society and Culture
He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.
-- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his
campaign pledge that there would be An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf I tried a mail order bride, once, but she was damaged in the mail, and I had to return the unused part for my full refund. A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of
mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
-- Rita Mae Brown Society and Culture "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) To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation.
-- Latin Proverb "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) Society and Culture
The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
-- George Bernard Shaw "One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline
luggage.
-- Mark Russell "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Society and Culture Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
-- John Tudor Society and Culture
