Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) 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 "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) Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison Society and Culture The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
-- Indigo Girls, song lyric blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh Society and Culture
"Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) "I should reproach him for not giving us enough evidence." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970, what he would say to God if they 'met') You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would not live forever, because
we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live
forever, Society and Culture "Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Society and Culture
Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine 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 Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken Society and Culture The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins Jake liked his women the way he liked his kiwi fruit: sweet yet tart, firm-fleshed yet yielding to the
touch, and covered with short brown fuzzy hair.
-- Jonathan S. Haas Society and Culture
We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. "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 Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
-- Ralph Marston To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig
deep into the actual and get something out of that - this doubtless is the right way to live.
-- H Society and Culture As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Society and Culture
She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are
romantic dreamers and actually believe that estrogenic skin cream must do something or they
couldn't cha The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins Society and Culture "People drag their progeny around with them like a ball and chain, like some terrible deadweight that hinders their every move - and that, as often as not, effectively winds up killing them." (Michel A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
-- Joseph Addison All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Society and Culture
Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
-- Anonymous 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 Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman "Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) Society and Culture For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf "The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford Society and Culture
My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words "I should reproach him for not giving us enough evidence." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970, what he would say to God if they 'met') I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) Society and Culture If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama Health food makes me sick.
-- Calvin Trillin Guide to understanding a net.addict's day:
Slow day: didn't have much to do, so spent three hours on usenet.
Busy day: managed to work in three hours of usenet.
Bad day: barely squeezed in three ho Society and Culture
"A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." (Fred Allen) Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) Society and Culture Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
-- Oliver Herford "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink Society and Culture
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 "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him.
-- Cher Society and Culture When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I ask
is a chance."
-- Anon. Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual Society and Culture
Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
- Robert Frost "One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) Society and Culture Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca Society and Culture
You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.
-- American Proverb All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin 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 A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld Society and Culture If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Society and Culture
