blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) 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 Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-- Carl Gustav Jung The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb Per cubic inch, your current TV set is perhaps the dumbest appliance in your home (and I'm not
even talking about the programs).
-- Nicholas Negroponte Society and Culture "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us.
-- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius Society and Culture
The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy
the waking hours much more.
-- Woody Allen There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Society and Culture Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James Society and Culture
What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy "Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Society and Culture .. 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 I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this
is not difficult.
-- Charlotte Whitton Society and Culture
The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy "The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) "Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically!
-- Steven Wright You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford Society and Culture A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
-- Joseph Addison Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald "One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price. I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I Society and Culture
"If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Society and Culture "Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing.
Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
-- Oscar Wilde We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx Society and Culture
"Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles Society and Culture "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
-- Christopher Morley Society and Culture
"The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde Society and Culture Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
-- Seen on a t-shirt Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf Society and Culture
"The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch "Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) Society and Culture This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Society and Culture
Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
-- Carl Zwanzig Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier. --H.L. Mencken You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and
joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not
as "I should reproach him for not giving us enough evidence." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970, what he would say to God if they 'met') Society and Culture "A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it." (Claude Rains, as Mr. Dryden, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald Society and Culture
"Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton 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 Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.
-- R. Scott Richards "When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wro Society and Culture The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain Society and Culture
Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The
premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool.
-- Kelvin Throop I "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
-- Hermione Gingold Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman Society and Culture "Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) Society and Culture
