Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on
a date.
-- Caroline Rhea Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-- Carl Gustav Jung Society and Culture If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
-- Al Bernstein "Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
-- John Tudor Society and Culture
Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more
experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat
soiled or torn? "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a
thing to be acheived.
-- William Jennings Bryant I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all
the time. That would be hypocrisy.
-- Oscar Wilde Society and Culture Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Society and Culture
When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up
something appropriate and do it.
-- E. W. Howe If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw 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 Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call
me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
-- Rebecca West, Society and Culture What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples'
decisions for them?
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed Society and Culture
Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you
together, but do so with all your heart.
-- Marcus Aurelius I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite
without any wish to act.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson 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 Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
-- Arthur C. Coxe I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being
gummed by a newt. It doesn't actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle.
-- Molly Ivins 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 Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each
other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's
nerves A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael Society and Culture "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cĉsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. Society and Culture
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 "In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-- Indian proverb What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln Society and Culture Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
ages as much as 20 years.
-- Anonymous 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 It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw Society and Culture
I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject,
when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron
scumbags dev Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson Society and Culture Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door
and just visit now and then.
-- Katharine Hepburn I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain "I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always send them a plant to wish them well. Of course, it's a cactus." (Norman B Society and Culture
In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other
friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things:
and in that For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
-- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) "I put on an act sometimes, and people think I'm insensitive. Really, it's like a kind of armor because I'm too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I' Society and Culture Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person that loves you
enough chance to love you enough.
-- Dinah Shore Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso In medieval times, people thought that evil spirits could enter a person through an open mouth.
These days they more often leave that way.
-- David Deckert Society and Culture
Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous "In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat." (Robert Byrne) Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli "There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered." (Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom) We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi Society and Culture Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay Society and Culture
Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide Society and Culture A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous "Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god." (Jean Rostand) There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright Society and Culture
Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy.
-- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a
natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson Society and Culture Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Society and Culture
