"I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to
us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
-- Jeff Raskin The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers Society and Culture Why doesn't she like me? Is it my hair, my overbite, the fact that I've worn the same shirt and
shorts for the last four years?
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated tele An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
-- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 Society and Culture
blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. Society and Culture Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken Society and Culture
"The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) 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 If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
-- Samuel Johnson Society and Culture "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. Society and Culture
Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to
be a coincidence.
-- Jeremy S. Anderson We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford Society and Culture You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) Society and Culture
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" Well, I think that it's a- it's had some difficult times but I think we have- we, I think, have been able
to make some very good progress and it's- I would say that it's- it's- it's delightful that w You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
-- Satchel Paige To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard Society and Culture He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca Society and Culture
Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker
room is the temple where they worship arrested development.
-- Russell Baker "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
- Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable
statues I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi Society and Culture "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) The man with the best job in the country is the Vice President. All he has to do is get up every
morning and say, "How's the President?"
-- Will Rogers The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous Society and Culture
For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Society and Culture Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
can't read.
-- Frank Zappa Society and Culture
My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwile careers in the
street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack
of u He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
-- Terry Cohen I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane Society and Culture The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover Society and Culture
"One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again.
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck Society and Culture "'Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!'" (Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass) Anything too stupid to be said, is sung.
-- Voltaire Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein 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 Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is
something everybody believes, except the person who made it.
-- Albert Einstein, attributed Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz Society and Culture "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert Society and Culture
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 You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be
sacrificed to expediency.
-- W. Somerset Maugham A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours "It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe Society and Culture If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-- Abraham Lincoln "One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz Society and Culture
