He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart Society and Culture "Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Society and Culture
When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already
were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley "The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye Society and Culture Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx Society and Culture
Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through
self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
-- Helen Keller You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too.
When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing
extraordinary Society and Culture The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Society and Culture
I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it.
And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.
-- George Bus Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
toys?
-- Douglas Coupland Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous Society and Culture "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) "To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara Society and Culture
If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
-- Arthur C. Coxe I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. Society and Culture No other success can compensate for failure in the home.
-- David O. McKay, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Advice to parents at General Conference of he
LDS Church, April, 1964 A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost "Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Society and Culture
Not to anticipate is already to moan.
-- Leonardo da Vinci "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute
for life.
-- Andrew Brown "Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "I put on an act sometimes, and people think I'm insensitive. Really, it's like a kind of armor because I'm too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I' Society and Culture However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
-- B.F. Skinner We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx Society and Culture
Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes
time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.
-- Fred Astaire "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) "In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) Society and Culture We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we
can do... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes.
-- Cybi I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
-- Ambrose Bierce Society and Culture
It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. "In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous Society and Culture There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor "Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
happen to him.
-- John Barrymore - last words Society and Culture
I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Guys are lucky because they get to grow mustaches. I wish I could. It's like having a little pet for
your face.
-- Anita Wise Society and Culture Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the
slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional
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All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
toys?
-- Douglas Coupland "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) Society and Culture "I offer images; I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached ... But, we can only open the doors. We can't drag people through. I can't free them unless they want to be free--more than any If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Society and Culture
"In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) "If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely
to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to Society and Culture "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Society and Culture
