Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
-- Mae West Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant 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 Society and Culture If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of
something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than
cocaine.
"Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper Society and Culture
If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
-- Lily Tomlin Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on
a date.
-- Caroline Rhea Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things.
-- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin Society and Culture A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller "I'll endorse with my name any of the following; clothing AC-DC, cigarettes, small tapes, sound equipment, ROCK N' ROLL RECORDS, anything, film, and film equipment, Food, Helium, Whips, MONEY!!" (And In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley Society and Culture
It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who,
doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a
machi Society and Culture Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do
its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.
-- If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker Society and Culture
Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely
to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery
increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control
futur Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
- Sir Winston Churchill "When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan Society and Culture Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
-- Elvis Presley Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover Society and Culture
"Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're
the boss."
-- Anonymous Man is a natural polygamist. He always has one woman leading him by the nose and another
hanging on to his coattails.
-- H. L. Mencken .. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over
myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long
per Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf Society and Culture Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous "Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) "I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe Society and Culture
Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
-- Finley Peter Dunne Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to
benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.
-- Ralph Mars There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton "I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Society and Culture Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
-- Oliver Herford 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 Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to
do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did.
-- Anonymous Society and Culture
Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
-- George Saunders - last words "You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru "Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard)." (Edgar R. Fiedler) cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
gone beyond that.
-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
-- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 Society and Culture I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
car.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Society and Culture
A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Society and Culture Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in
a car he sticks his head out the window.
-- Steve Bluestone "I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) Society and Culture
"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) 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 One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if
possible, speak a few reasonable words.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Indeed, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all.
-- Ogden Nash, Song of the Open Road, 1945 Society and Culture Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the
commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete
answer. In fact, women's total ins Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "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 Society and Culture
That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton "Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all
I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it."
-- Jerry Seinfeld A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) Society and Culture Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker Society and Culture
I do not see the EEC as a great love affair. It is more like nine desperate middle-ages couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope. -- Tynan "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment.
-- Voltaire Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the
top.
-- Ed Abbey Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. Society and Culture Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
-- M. Hirschfield "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) Society and Culture
