If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as
saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball.
-- Deborah Tan I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I
believed in liberals...
-- G. K. Chesterton The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson Society and Culture It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) 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 Society and Culture
Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the
commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete
answer. In fact, women's total ins "Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen Society and Culture The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage Society and Culture
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I "For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
-- George Clemenceau blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) Society and Culture What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-
inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least
expect i "Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) Society and Culture
If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be
closed for any other business.
-- Abraham Lincoln Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door
and just visit now and then.
-- Katharine Hepburn Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore:
? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its
duties.
? Work "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 "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't
have done.
-- Malcolm Forbes Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best
to become the best you are capable of becoming.
-- John R. Wooden, Practical Modern Basketball Society and Culture
Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is
merely a good excuse not to play football.
-- Fran Lebowitz It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt Society and Culture A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire "It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
-- Chekhov Society and Culture
It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
-- Vladimir Nabokov "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 The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or
theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
-- George Santayana Society and Culture The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
is.
-- Arnold Bennett 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 The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or
theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
-- George Santayana Society and Culture
"You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf Remember your dreams.
-- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey Society and Culture Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein Society and Culture
A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos "To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Guitry Society and Culture "We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller "Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day." (Ali bin Society and Culture
Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
-- Vladimir Nabokov "If I were still a critic, I would loathe knowing the person I was writing about. There's enough of an incestuous relationship between subject and writer." (Manny Farber, American film theorist) Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-- Irwin Corey Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers Society and Culture A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) I'll sleep when I'm dead.
- Warren Zevon I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
-- Will Rogers Society and Culture
"What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
-- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle Society and Culture "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) Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
-- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James Society and Culture
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln "I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
-- Albert Einstein "A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) Society and Culture "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.
-- Georges Danton, to his executioner If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn Society and Culture
