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 Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would
be able to endure it.
-- Schopenhauer A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken Society and Culture Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
-- John Tudor Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this
is not difficult.
-- Charlotte Whitton "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) Society and Culture
"Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and
retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Society and Culture We are the echo of the future.
-- W. S. Merwin The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
- Bill Hirst Society and Culture
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary
to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.'
-- Bierce, A Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp "God is dead: but considering the state Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom) Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon Society and Culture "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
-- Benjamin Disraeli We can say 'Peace on Earth,' we can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have
not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us, then it will not be.
-- Betty Shabazz Society and Culture
The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of
your life.
-- Abbie M. Dale Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the
second, "For my best friend."
-- Anonymous "People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult." (Anne My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! Society and Culture A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should
live honourably.
-- Kant, Immanuel I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll Society and Culture
A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
-- Vladimir Nabokov Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of
poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.
-- John Cage Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim
to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire.
-- Gen. George He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. Society and Culture I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, "I'd like some fries." The girl at the counter said,
"Would you like some fries with that?"
-- Jay Leno "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. Society and Culture
Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) "A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department
store and he asked for my autograph.
-- Shirley Temple Black "Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it." (Colin Powell) Society and Culture "Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner Society and Culture
There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to
help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to
comfort us along "Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Facts are the enemy of truth.
- Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha Society and Culture My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw Society and Culture
There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does
not change his mind.
-- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by
trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by l Health food makes me sick.
-- Calvin Trillin Society and Culture The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-- Gilda Radner There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin Society and Culture
Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin "Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning
there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have
people all Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and
illiterate sport fishermen.
-- P. J. O'Rourke You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone Society and Culture We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want,
and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.
-- Fred Astaire Society and Culture
Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose
-- Jim Elliott Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle Society and Culture One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall Society and Culture
There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi "No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." (Henry B. Adams) I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
-- Douglas Adams Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark
in one another.
-- Kenny Ausubel Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
-- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking
campaign Society and Culture What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it." (Colin Powell) Society and Culture
