Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
-- Oscar Wilde Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco Society and Culture Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein 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 "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) Society and Culture
True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner "Those who feel certainty are stupid and those with any imagination or understanding are filled with doubt and indecision." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Society and Culture Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. "Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous Society and Culture
"The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) Society and Culture The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde Society and Culture
The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf "Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
- James Stephens In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois Society and Culture "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner Society and Culture
A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
-- John Adams, dying words It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves
great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates
the In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. Society and Culture "People drag their progeny around with them like a ball and chain, like some terrible deadweight that hinders their every move - and that, as often as not, effectively winds up killing them." (Michel 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 "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) Society and Culture
The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley "Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any compliment and limit, but only o "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) "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal Society and Culture "Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau Society and Culture
Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you
have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.
-- Aldous Huxley May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Society and Culture The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
--Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was
doing spying.
-- Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets for spying, in an i Society and Culture
All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" "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." You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-- Richard Bach Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) Society and Culture May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "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." Society and Culture
"I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos--especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom ... Rather than starting inside, I start ou A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Louis Berlioz Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay Society and Culture Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-- Bill Stern It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal "We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Society and Culture
When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-- Sacha Guitry Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a
holding pattern over Philadelphia.
-- Judith Viorst I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department
store and he asked for my autograph.
-- Shirley Temple Black "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something.
-- Seymour Papert Society and Culture Man and wife make one fool. One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
reputation.
-- Oscar Wilde Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon Society and Culture
"That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, Jake liked his women the way he liked his kiwi fruit: sweet yet tart, firm-fleshed yet yielding to the
touch, and covered with short brown fuzzy hair.
-- Jonathan S. Haas One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles "Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard Society and Culture "By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady
in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me.
-- Dick Martin "Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it Society and Culture
