It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
-- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
-- Terry Cohen blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
freedom.
-- Albert Einstein Society and Culture Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the
really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
-- Mark Twain A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Society and Culture
"Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation." (Larry Flynt) What's new? Most of my wife. In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
-- G. K. Chesterton If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman Society and Culture Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to
realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and
grie I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all
the time. That would be hypocrisy.
-- Oscar Wilde Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Society and Culture
I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz "In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
-- Anonymous The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow Society and Culture "All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
-- Virginia Woolf Society and Culture
If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.
-- Londo Molari Society and Culture Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
-- Clarence Darrow There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at
heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels,
upon the lev Society and Culture
If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again.
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx Society and Culture "Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard)." (Edgar R. Fiedler) A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. 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, Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton Society and Culture Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something
different.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
-- Rory Bremner "Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) Society and Culture
I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. Society and Culture Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature
intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times
worse tha When Baby's cries grew hard to bear I popped him in the Frigidaire. I never would have done so if
I'd known that he'd be frozen stiff. My wife said, "George, I'm so unhappy! Our darling's now
comple Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne Society and Culture
He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine; as he
who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me.
-- Thomas Jefferson Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically!
-- Steven Wright "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire 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) I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
- Cicero The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the
purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
-- Anatole France Society and Culture
If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your
thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be.
-- Richard Mitchell, from "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with
the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
-- Cynthia Heimel Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler Society and Culture Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?
-- Michael Meissner Society and Culture
Marriage is a rest period between romances. 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 Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked
me in the cellar.
-- Anonymous >From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud Society and Culture If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel "Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) Society and Culture
blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-- Benjamin Disraeli The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
-- Brian Pickrell Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
-- Robert Orben Society and Culture Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
-- Niels Bohr The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams Society and Culture
