Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns "Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way
to bet.
-- Damon Runyan "I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns Society and Culture "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) "The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) 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
Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) "Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his
cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that
Uncl Society and Culture Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique
added to the armamentarium of political inquiry. Anyone who cannot negotiate Chi squares,
assess randomi "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard Society and Culture
There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's
age.
-- Modern Maturity Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
-- Albert Einstein "Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss." (Hal Holbrook, Wallstreet) Society and Culture Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger Society and Culture
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 I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.
-- Barbara Bush, first lady, 1989 A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
-- Winston Churchill If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield Society and Culture As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are
certain, they do not refer to reality.
-- Albert Einstein Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) Society and Culture
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 "Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
time I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not
mean his maker, but himself.
-- Dean Inge Society and Culture You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec "I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
bureaucracy won't.
-- Hyman Rickover Society and Culture
"I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their
graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort.
-- Sydney Smith "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton Society and Culture Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) "In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) Society and Culture
There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the
instrument plays itself.
-- Johann Sebastian Bach No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. Society and Culture "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) "Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) 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 "I think people resist freedom because they're afraid of the unknown. But it's ironic....That unknown was once very well known. It's where are souls belong....The only solution is to confront them--co "Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wit You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. Society and Culture Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances
continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the
distance "A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Society and Culture
I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
- Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable
statues "Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
-- Publilius Syrus I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West Society and Culture Guys are lucky because they get to grow mustaches. I wish I could. It's like having a little pet for
your face.
-- Anita Wise "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde Society and Culture
"Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
-- Lord Dewar We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx Society and Culture A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx Society and Culture
Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen blah "You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Society and Culture Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the
really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
-- Mark Twain As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are
certain, they do not refer to reality.
-- Albert Einstein "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) Society and Culture
