Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you
have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.
-- Aldous Huxley "Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." (Dave Barry) When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
-- Douglas Adams Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
can't read.
-- Frank Zappa Society and Culture I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
-- Virginia Woolf Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas "Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) Society and Culture
It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.
-- Tom Robbins The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I "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) "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. Society and Culture Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 Society and Culture
"Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) Spinster: A bachelor's wife. Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves
beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
-- Al Rogers, Global SchoolHouse Netw Society and Culture Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
-- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth Spinster: A bachelor's wife. Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde Society and Culture
I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison "I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!
-- Dr. Strangelove And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery Society and Culture I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
-- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the
influences under which he incurred the disorder... It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the
physician "Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) Society and Culture
Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
-- Oscar Wilde 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 Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins 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 Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers Society and Culture
We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire "Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) 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 I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Society and Culture In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the
next meal would come from.
-- Peter F. Drucker It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman blah "Ideas are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and, following them, you reach yo Society and Culture
When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one
should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do
not allow 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 >From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud "When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wro When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
legislators.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Society and Culture I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx 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 Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
automobile.
-- Billy Sunday Society and Culture
Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
-- Maya Angelou And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the
opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
-- Oscar W Society and Culture Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln Society and Culture
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
-- George Clemenceau Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson Society and Culture Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing
matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.
-- Amy Bloom Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
-- Beaumont, Francis No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
-- Booker T. Washington Society and Culture
"Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of g The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire "I'll endorse with my name any of the following; clothing AC-DC, cigarettes, small tapes, sound equipment, ROCK N' ROLL RECORDS, anything, film, and film equipment, Food, Helium, Whips, MONEY!!" (And He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
-- Samuel Johnson Society and Culture And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts,
in living color, you're about to see another first -- an attempted suicide.
-- Chris Hubbock, who sh Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides 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 Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
-- Albert Einstein Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would
be doing if he were alive today?
1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War.
2) Advising the President.
3) D Society and Culture You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Society and Culture
