He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose
-- Jim Elliott May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.
-- General Douglas MacArthur Society and Culture There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never
were, and ask why not?
-- Robert Francis Kennedy 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 Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs Society and Culture
He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous 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 It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen Society and Culture Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
-- Maya Angelou "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Society and Culture
In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
-- Ralph Marston To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not,
the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms
with Society and Culture "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with
the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover,
To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde Society and Culture
"Think off-center." (George Carlin) "Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature
intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times
worse tha Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi Society and Culture Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf Society and Culture
"There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips." (Elsa Lanchester) It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
-- Henry James I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
and bought jewelry.
-- Rita Rudner 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 Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner Society and Culture Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate,
the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
-- Rainer Maria Ril Society and Culture
It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words
that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
-- Alexander Pope "In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up
something appropriate and do it.
-- E. W. Howe Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Society and Culture Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning 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
House No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. Society and Culture
Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was
doing spying.
-- Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets for spying, in an i Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
- Cicero Society and Culture Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
-- Woody Allen Society and Culture
Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it.
-- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) "God is dead: but considering the state Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom) The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they
can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and
stupid from Society and Culture Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or
failure has been dependent on the one he used most.
-- George R. Kirkpatrick There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. Society and Culture
Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crow All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up
our minds to walk boldly through them.
-- Orison Swett Marden I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer Society and Culture Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." Society and Culture
Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
-- Herbert Westren Turnbull Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford Society and Culture I'll sleep when I'm dead.
- Warren Zevon Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles Society and Culture
Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing
popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.
-- Dave Barry "Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) Society and Culture "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) Society and Culture
