True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
-- Hermione Gingold Society and Culture When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
-- Buckminster "A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) Just buy a box of popcorn and a Coca-Cola and sit back and watch.
-- James Carville, Clinton advisor, offering advice for Democrats on the term-limits vote in the
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"I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things.
-- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') Society and Culture A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung Society and Culture
How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
a leg.
-- Abraham Lincoln In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to
benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.
-- Ralph Mars Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the
source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity,
ign Society and Culture By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
a fortune "The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things!
-- Tom Lehrer Society and Culture
To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca Study men, not historians.
-- Harry Truman "I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos--especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom ... Rather than starting inside, I start ou Society and Culture The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy
together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back
on at To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
- Buckminster Society and Culture
"Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model.
Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush...
-- Dawn French Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin Society and Culture No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Society and Culture
"People drag their progeny around with them like a ball and chain, like some terrible deadweight that hinders their every move - and that, as often as not, effectively winds up killing them." (Michel Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves
beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
-- Al Rogers, Global SchoolHouse Netw A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein Society and Culture The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire Society and Culture
The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop
questioning.
-- Albert Einstein There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane Society and Culture True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is
always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.
-- Friedrich Nietzsch "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) 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
I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and
members of the Senate.
-- Dan Quayle, Former Vice-President Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw Society and Culture By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
a fortune "For others do I wait ... for higher ones, stronger ones, more triumphant ones, merrier ones, for such as are built squarely in body and soul: laughing lions must come." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too.
When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing
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We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we
can do... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes.
-- Cybi I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller 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 Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb Society and Culture Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!
-- Dr. Strangelove Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
-- Anonymous Society and Culture
There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's
age.
-- Modern Maturity I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard "Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) Society and Culture Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who
take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
-- INDIRA "One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Society and Culture
"Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the
consequences.
-- Isadora Duncan 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 I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato Society and Culture We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett Society and Culture
