Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde "Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures--in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together." They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to
run his, either.
-- Anonymous The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) 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 Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes
your wife.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Society and Culture
"If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) "You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 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 I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like
a black mistake.
-- D. H. Lawrence The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines
staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you
ask th Society and Culture If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
-- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz 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 "Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-- Ambrose Bierce No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton Society and Culture I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
coattails.
-- Clarence Darrow Society and Culture
My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
-- Indigo Girls, song lyric "Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman Society and Culture "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson Society and Culture
Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is
the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be
cr Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take
what I have to give.
-- Cass Daley "Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) Society and Culture Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be
built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
-- Anne S Society and Culture
The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and
remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't
work and the In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the
next meal would come from.
-- Peter F. Drucker Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
one.
-- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
-- Libbie Fudim Society and Culture Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard "The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." (George Bernar Society and Culture
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 "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 "The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is n "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) Society and Culture If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
-- Albert Einstein "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom Society and Culture
Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain "From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
-- Ambrose Bierce Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
bad ones.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Society and Culture "Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. Society and Culture
Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
happen to him.
-- John Barrymore - last words "See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and Society and Culture "Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) Society and Culture
Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-- Ambrose Bierce "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) "It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing." (Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises) Society and Culture You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) Society and Culture
Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it,
there will be a fish.
-- Ovid No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Society and Culture "My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go." (Oscar Wilde, his last recorded words) Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes
your wife.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
existence.
-- Sydney Smith Society and Culture
