A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
-- Mae West Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
-- Helen Keller Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett Politics 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
inex "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) Politics
All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves
great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates
the If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
one.
-- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri Politics "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) "All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion Politics
Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb Politics "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle We look forward to the time when the power to love of will replace the love of power. Then will our
world know the blessings of peace.
-- William Gladstone Politics
Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. "Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Politics The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost Politics
Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle 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 Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
what you are getting.
-- Anonymous The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw Politics "See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley Politics
They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
-- Libbie Fudim "I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos--especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom ... Rather than starting inside, I start ou "Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Politics Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
-- Robert M. Pirsig The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill Politics
"Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
-- Polish proverb The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) Politics "To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time Politics
Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
definition, is unassailable.
-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. "A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) Politics The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero "Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
-- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 Politics
"How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) "From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine Politics It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the
advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first.
-- Benjamin Franklin I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur Politics
"Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of
them, it's considered to be your style.
-- Fred Astaire Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol Politics When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner Politics
Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger "There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any
antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
-- Alfred Hitchcock Politics There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
-- Neils Bohr Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich Politics
