"Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if
he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. Society and Culture 'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince Society and Culture
There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to
learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
-- Michel de Montaigne Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off
his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night.
-- Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley O Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. 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 Society and Culture Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
-- Sioux Indian Prayer In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison Society and Culture
Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows
how to make us disobedient.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead Society and Culture "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Society and Culture
"Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create
it herself.
- Anais Nin Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? Society and Culture The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer Society and Culture
I don't think I'll get married again. I'll just find a woman I don't like and give her a house.
-- Lewis Grizzard Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be
feasible.
- A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous
and dreadful.
-- Samuel Johnson Society and Culture Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley Society and Culture
A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg "The feminists used to say that chivalry and ladyhood were ways of keeping women down and preventing them from standing toe to toe with the guys. Now you've got a lot of women saying that if a guy is It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone Society and Culture "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
-- Anonymous Society and Culture
All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone Society and Culture When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp Society and Culture
"When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who
take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
-- INDIRA Society and Culture Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. "Think off-center." (George Carlin) Society and Culture
There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "Whether it is a black cat or a white cat, as long as it can catch the rat, it is a good cat." (Deng Xiao Ping) "Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." (Gertrude Stein) A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from
both sides.
-- Margaret Thatcher Society and Culture Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
-- Alphonse Allais This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises,
promotions, and other signs of appreciation.
-- Anonymous Society and Culture
What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when
people laugh.
-- George Bernard Shaw Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes
your wife.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) Society and Culture Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of
fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality
and While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and
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He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
-- Adela Rogers St. John We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 Goodbye, Everybody!
-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) Society and Culture A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra "One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Society and Culture
