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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 There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers A White House well filled, a little peanut field well tilled, and a wife who will go to the Bronx are
great riches.
-- Poor Jimmy's Almanac "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw Society and Culture Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
-- St. Francis of Assisi The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. Society and Culture
The more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
-- Mark Twain Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.
-- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995 Society and Culture Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
-- Vladimir Nabokov I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the
calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
-- Mark Twain Society and Culture
Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Mark Twain Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson 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 "Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Society and Culture If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel "Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) 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
Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best
to become the best you are capable of becoming.
-- John R. Wooden, Practical Modern Basketball I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the
marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.
-- Bette Davis "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Society and Culture When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
legislators.
-- P. J. O'Rourke "Friends are those people who know the words to the song in your heart and sing them back to you when you have forgotten the words." (Anonymous) I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge Society and Culture
Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't
take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates...
-- Anonymous While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this
is true.
-- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion Society and Culture A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Guitry "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) "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Society and Culture
Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
pure ignorance?
-- Holbrook Jackson The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark
in one another.
-- Kenny Ausubel Society and Culture "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 Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) Society and Culture
I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik "From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) Society and Culture "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." (Mark Twain) "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) Society and Culture
blah "You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken Society and Culture If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken Jake liked his women the way he liked his kiwi fruit: sweet yet tart, firm-fleshed yet yielding to the
touch, and covered with short brown fuzzy hair.
-- Jonathan S. Haas 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 Society and Culture
"Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Society and Culture "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
teachers.
-- Socrates No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack Society and Culture
"Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been
all along.
-- Madeleine L'Engle Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine Society and Culture "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) "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The
average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted
to Society and Culture
"It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
- George Washington Carver Society and Culture "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca Society and Culture
