"Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-- Bill Stern The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- W. Somerset Maugham "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 Society and Culture If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
bureaucracy won't.
-- Hyman Rickover Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it
doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever
sea For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf Society and Culture
It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker "If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair." (Samuel Johnson) The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
-- G. K. Chesterton Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James "I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) Society and Culture If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
-- H. L. Mencken For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf Society and Culture
If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 Society and Culture Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health,
knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
-- Roger Babson When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you
don't know. He knows now that he doesn't know. Last year, he didn't know that.
-- Bill Parcels, New Engla Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President Society and Culture
I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't
certain we knew better.
-- George Bird Evans "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) Society and Culture The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one
of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
-- George Bernard Shaw Society and Culture
Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger,
as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is
when you r "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) This compact disc is made from analog masters recorded without noise reduction. Half the tracks,
in fact, were recorded in a dismal, cheap basement eight-track studio with puddles of water on
the fl "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau Society and Culture "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) "A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) "Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) Society and Culture
The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived
in this century. I didn't live in this century.
-- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
existence.
-- Sydney Smith This compact disc is made from analog masters recorded without noise reduction. Half the tracks,
in fact, were recorded in a dismal, cheap basement eight-track studio with puddles of water on
the fl Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off
his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night.
-- Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley O Society and Culture Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson He who laughs last didn't get it.
-- Helen Giangregorio Society and Culture
Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage
he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it.
-- Anon. 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 Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) Society and Culture My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) Society and Culture
"I should reproach him for not giving us enough evidence." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970, what he would say to God if they 'met') Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward "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) Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset Society and Culture I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including:
* Both of your socks should always be the same color
* Or they should at least both be fairly dark
-- Dave Barry If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) Society and Culture
Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb Society and Culture I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford Society and Culture
Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is
thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.
-- Henry Wadsworth Lo When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall
looking frantic.
-- Steven Wright This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more
they possess.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that
M&Ms really do melt in your hand...
-- Peter Oakley Society and Culture Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
-- John Tudor Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) Society and Culture
Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware;
those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software.
-- Unknown author, Levitating T Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one
should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do
not allow A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who
marries a man to reform him.
-- Elbert Hubbard Society and Culture Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton Society and Culture
