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"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 I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and
members of the Senate.
-- Dan Quayle, Former Vice-President Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.
-- David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes. Society and Culture "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) Society and Culture
Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
-- Samuel Butler A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing.
-- George Benard Shaw The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold "All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) "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 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 He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose
-- Jim Elliott Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain
as marijuana...The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two, but can't
remember what Society and Culture
ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette Society and Culture Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Borge "I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up
our minds to walk boldly through them.
-- Orison Swett Marden Society and Culture
The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
-- Ambrose Bierce "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
-- Sidney Goff Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken Society and Culture "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) Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are
certain, they do not refer to reality.
-- Albert Einstein Society and Culture
Guys are lucky because they get to grow mustaches. I wish I could. It's like having a little pet for
your face.
-- Anita Wise Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm "It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe "The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." (Albert Camus) The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing
changes and yet everything is completely different.
-- Aldous Huxley Society and Culture "Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
-- Ernest Hemingway Society and Culture
How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
a leg.
-- Abraham Lincoln They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
-- Anonymous "I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims
of intact ones.
-- Peter DeVries There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty Society and Culture Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry "Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Society and Culture
Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
-- Erica Jong Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw 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 Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry Society and Culture Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Boies Penrose, 1931 The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw "No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree." (Lee Rudolph) Society and Culture
Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson "Whether it is a black cat or a white cat, as long as it can catch the rat, it is a good cat." (Deng Xiao Ping) 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 Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason Society and Culture If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
can't read.
-- Frank Zappa Society and Culture
Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
-- Red Buttons Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and
discipline.
-- Michel de Montaigne Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words Society and Culture The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) Society and Culture
"Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crowf What's new? Most of my wife. "I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) Society and Culture I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does
not change his mind.
-- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) Society and Culture
Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain
as marijuana...The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two, but can't
remember what It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
-- Leslie Jeanne Sahler Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot Society and Culture If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model.
Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush...
-- Dawn French Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant Society and Culture
