Every flower must grow through dirt.
-- Anonymous "Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." (Gertrude Stein) 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. Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in
bed with her.
-- Lenny Bruce Society and Culture You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-- Richard Bach Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
-- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Indeed, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all.
-- Ogden Nash, Song of the Open Road, 1945 Society and Culture
We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland Society and Culture Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
-- Erma Bombeck Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye Society and Culture
Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The
average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted
to "I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin Society and Culture "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf Society and Culture
Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the
consequences.
-- Isadora Duncan I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) "Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god." (Jean Rostand) If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
- George Bernard Shaw Society and Culture The man with the best job in the country is the Vice President. All he has to do is get up every
morning and say, "How's the President?"
-- Will Rogers The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe Society and Culture
Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for
comprehensive health care during a candidates' forum, said he supported "erection-to-
resurrection" coverage. He later a The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-- Samuel Butler Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately
becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in
those tiny toil Society and Culture Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. Society and Culture
I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
wastes to Third Wo It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
-- Emiliano Zapata A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature
machine gun.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell "My daughter has never forgiven me. for what, I don't know, because for years, she won't speak to me. She blackens my name in the press and makes me think abortion is an excellent idea." (Klaus Kinsk Society and Culture You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington "Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart Society and Culture
Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy "Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected..." (Chuck Jones) If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Society and Culture Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have
had any experience with them.
-- H. L. Mencken When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry 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
"I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust
there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
-- Andre Norton A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-- Indian proverb Society and Culture Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and
therefore congenial to it.
-- G. K. Chesterton In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! This compact disc is made from analog masters recorded without noise reduction. Half the tracks,
in fact, were recorded in a dismal, cheap basement eight-track studio with puddles of water on
the fl Society and Culture
"Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
-- Bhagava Gita "... adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, quoted in his obituary, Time) If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
-- Albert Einstein If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards Society and Culture My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln 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 There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!
-- Calvin Society and Culture
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 The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
is.
-- Arnold Bennett We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake Society and Culture When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
-- Arthur C. Coxe "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Society and Culture
"We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is
thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.
-- Henry Wadsworth Lo There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
imagination.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Society and Culture "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) "Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth
shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.
-- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, Society and Culture
