"I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
-- James McNeill Whistler All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) Society and Culture then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
what you are getting.
-- Anonymous Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins Society and Culture
Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
-- Ralph Marston Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it,
Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me
de Society and Culture Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
what you are getting.
-- Anonymous Society and Culture
Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
-- Mae West Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses Society and Culture "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) Society and Culture
Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
him.
-- Rich Little Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort Society and Culture The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa "I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Society and Culture
Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
-- Beaumont, Francis Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point 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 "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee Society and Culture Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway.
-- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with
the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
-- Cynthia Heimel Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton Society and Culture
Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen 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 Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
-- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act i. Sc. 1. [You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same
joke and still feel lonely.
-- T. S. Eliot Society and Culture The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.
-- Sigmund Freud "Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of
responsibility at the other.
-- Ronald Reagan, Saturday Evening Post, 1965 Society and Culture
Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.
-- Barbara Bush, first lady, 1989 Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with
the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
-- Cynthia Heimel "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 Society and Culture God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at
the same time.
- Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) "The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) Society and Culture
A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The
gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
-- Thomas Arnold Bennet Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein Society and Culture Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar 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 Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to
us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
-- Jeff Raskin Society and Culture
The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun "Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard)." (Edgar R. Fiedler) "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) Society and Culture In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is
simply one of those things which happen from time to time.
-- Edward P. Tryon "Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." (Dave Barry) "I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George Society and Culture
Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
-- Byrd Baggett Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.
- Henry Kissinger Society and Culture Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain Society and Culture
Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
-- Colin Wilson If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright "A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) Society and Culture It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde "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 "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) Society and Culture
