The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.
-- R. Scott Richards I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for
half the money.
-- Arthur Godfrey Society and Culture Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell 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 "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) Society and Culture
Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife 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 Society and Culture I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as
possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had "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) Society and Culture
"Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) "You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die The soul is healed by being with children.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevski "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli Society and Culture Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
-- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking
campaign In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun Society and Culture
Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers 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 Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken "Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth Society and Culture Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
-- Anthony Burgess "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers Society and Culture
To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." 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 "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) Society and Culture "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) "Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) Society and Culture
Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns Society and Culture All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
-- Anonymous the social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for
all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation.
-- Peter The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind
woman.
-- S. T. Coleridge Society and Culture
"The feminists used to say that chivalry and ladyhood were ways of keeping women down and preventing them from standing toe to toe with the guys. Now you've got a lot of women saying that if a guy is "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet
enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb Society and Culture "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) MARRIAGE, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two
slaves, making in all, two.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 "Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) Society and Culture
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 I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein "Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) Society and Culture He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West Society and Culture
You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those
little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is
merely a good excuse not to play football.
-- Fran Lebowitz "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) Society and Culture I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
-- Francois-Auguste Rodin, when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') Society and Culture
A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing
they die earlier.
-- H. L. Mencken Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous Society and Culture Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer 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 Society and Culture
Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason "If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having
passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it.
-- Anonymous A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer Society and Culture Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-- Anonymous Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
-- Oscar Wilde If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon Society and Culture
