Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-- Bill Stern A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door
and just visit now and then.
-- Katharine Hepburn "The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) "The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) Society and Culture We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous 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) 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 There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's
age.
-- Modern Maturity "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson Society and Culture The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The
rest is trust.
-- Nanette Newman, British actress Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three
children and no theories.
-- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester Society and Culture
Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig Every flower must grow through dirt.
-- Anonymous "And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to Society and Culture Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future
generations The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw 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 Society and Culture
Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." "People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) "'Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!'" (Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass) "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm Society and Culture Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous Society and Culture
I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger,
as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is
when you r Society and Culture 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 "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu Society and Culture
The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries Society and Culture A White House well filled, a little peanut field well tilled, and a wife who will go to the Bronx are
great riches.
-- Poor Jimmy's Almanac Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
-- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant Society and Culture
"Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to
me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
-- Lucille Ball Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman Society and Culture I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder "The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning Society and Culture
In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because
generally they are the same people.
-- G. K. Chesterton "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) Society and Culture All television is children's television.
-- Richard P. Adler "To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.
- Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep
up with software demands Society and Culture
People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson Society and Culture An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) Society and Culture
"Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) "The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) "If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." (Albert Einstein) May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. "Think off-center." (George Carlin) Society and Culture When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't
have done.
-- Malcolm Forbes Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein Society and Culture
By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
a fortune Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student "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 If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model.
Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush...
-- Dawn French Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Society and Culture I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy.
-- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My
answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer
to that would be "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) Society and Culture
