If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your
thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be.
-- Richard Mitchell, from When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
-- Publilius Syrus Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Society and Culture The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) Society and Culture
I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard "We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) Society and Culture "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard 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 Society and Culture
"A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u "I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing.
Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
-- Oscar Wilde Society and Culture I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber Society and Culture
To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain
terrible.
-- Jean Kerr If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. Society and Culture "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
imagination.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the
opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
-- Oscar W Society and Culture
"College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
-- Christopher Morley Society and Culture "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." I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.
-- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
-- John Tudor Society and Culture
Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer Society and Culture The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." (Mark Twain) Society and Culture
Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
-- Will Rogers The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man
will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
-- Henry Ford A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes Society and Culture "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does
not stop until you get into the office.
-- Robert Frost I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
-- Nathan Hale Society and Culture
Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage
he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it.
-- Anon. If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
bureaucracy won't.
-- Hyman Rickover "Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie Society and Culture The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of
mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
-- Rita Mae Brown I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau Society and Culture
A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
-- Mae West blah "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in
every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
ages as much as 20 years.
-- Anonymous The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard Society and Culture Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately
becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in
those tiny toil If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous Society and Culture
Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones
you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in
your Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
-- Sioux Indian Prayer Society and Culture The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein Society and Culture
America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.
-- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his
campaign pledge that there would be The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of
them, it's considered to be your style.
-- Fred Astaire An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers Society and Culture Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind
and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the
coachin If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers Society and Culture
