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"Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) >From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some
day I intend reading it.
-- Groucho Marx An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy
contests, but they keep the crowd's attention.
-- Anonymous Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavours to live the life which
one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
-- Henry David Thoreau Society and Culture It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke
or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
-- Charles Brower Society and Culture
Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 Society and Culture "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There
are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's
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The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee.
-- Anonymous I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they
study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.
-- Gerald Early, writer, baseball do For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf Society and Culture If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa 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 Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde Society and Culture
A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called
marriage.
-- James Holt McGavran When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Society and Culture "For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
-- Igor Stravinsky He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
-- Publilius Syrus Society and Culture
Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Anything too stupid to be said, is sung.
-- Voltaire Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
-- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James Society and Culture Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
-- Satchel Paige Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo Society and Culture
I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion "Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up
between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever.
-- Virginia Woolf Society and Culture Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. Society and Culture
blah "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing
changes and yet everything is completely different.
-- Aldous Huxley 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 Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) Society and Culture Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness
are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser
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Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas
doctors rob you and kill you too.
-- Anton Chekhov "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie "Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Society and Culture Goodbye, Everybody!
-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent
crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry
inspe We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire Society and Culture
When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake 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 "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) Society and Culture If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the
faculty of laughter.
-- Joseph Addison Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Anonymous Society and Culture
I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the
really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
-- Mark Twain "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings Society and Culture The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Borge Society and Culture
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
-- Bhagava Gita Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy Society and Culture "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
reputation.
-- Oscar Wilde "If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you t Society and Culture
