Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way
of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a
brand new ending.
-- Anonymous Society and Culture The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) Society and Culture
Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that
no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
-- Paul Dirac Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson Society and Culture I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
- Cicero Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
- Paul Erdos A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Society and Culture
By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to
know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.
- Clarence Darrow, Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) 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 Society and Culture Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous "One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry Society and Culture
Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
-- Anonymous Society and Culture We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
-- Emiliano Zapata To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. Society and Culture
Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire "If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair." (Samuel Johnson) If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis Society and Culture "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be
paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's
life "It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books--what other men do not say in whole books." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols) Society and Culture
My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no
character.
-- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig 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 Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
-- Byrd Baggett We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland Society and Culture The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to
substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
-- Iris Murdoch The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
time Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides Society and Culture
They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
-- Anonymous A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill Society and Culture Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
-- Plutarch We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
-- Woodrow Wyatt Society and Culture
Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and
tomorrow aint as bad as it seems.
-- Billy Joel Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin Society and Culture Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.
-- General Douglas MacArthur Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with
the powerful, not to be neutral.
-- Paulo Freire The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson Society and Culture
Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp "Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to
run his, either.
-- Anonymous The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) Society and Culture There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!
-- Calvin "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or
failure has been dependent on the one he used most.
-- George R. Kirkpatrick Society and Culture
The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy
together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back
on at If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius "This is the first age that's paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one." (Arthur C. Clarke) Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner Society and Culture Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) Society and Culture
He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
-- Oscar Wilde I just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln Society and Culture Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein Society and Culture
