The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason "Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected..." (Chuck Jones) If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice Society and Culture One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby
see only a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney and continue on their way.
-- Vincent Van Gogh If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill Society and Culture
Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to
realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and
grie Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the
really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
-- Mark Twain Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of
suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room.
-- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi Society and Culture "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 a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin Society and Culture
Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
-- Byrd Baggett Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one
should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do
not allow You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
cough.
-- Pearl Williams There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi Society and Culture "To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 Society and Culture
There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's
being off the network.
-- Guy Almes In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the
unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is
also the m He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
-- Polish proverb Society and Culture A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings "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, ignorance, g I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge Society and Culture
There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni Society and Culture "A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) "People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult." (Anne Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong
and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny
is but th Society and Culture
Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein "The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber Society and Culture You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot "To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Society and Culture
"Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay Society and Culture "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger Society and Culture
"God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) 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 A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman
is one who can find such a man.
-- Lana Turner Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 Society and Culture What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
-- Gertrude Stein, dying words Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
teachers.
-- Socrates 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 Society and Culture
You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler "Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." (Gertrude Stein) There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called
marriage.
-- James Holt McGavran blah blah blah blah blah "This is the way the world ends: not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot) _end]
[text_start]
"Hello Kitty is an icon that doesn't stand for a As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action
of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Society and Culture "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado Society and Culture
Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one
should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do
not allow Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.
-- Wayne Gretzky Society and Culture Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood Society and Culture
"All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn 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 "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Society and Culture A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) Society and Culture
