Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Society and Culture the social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for
all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation.
-- Peter A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Society and Culture
My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) We must become the change we want to see.
-- Gandhi If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Society and Culture Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
-- Rita Rudner Society and Culture
Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy "It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh Society and Culture blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra Society and Culture
Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or
failure has been dependent on the one he used most.
-- George R. Kirkpatrick Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness
are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser
tha Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi Society and Culture Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they
oppose it.
-- Sigmund Freud Tear open packet, unfold and use.
-- Directions on moist towelette package Society and Culture
We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) "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) 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 Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does
not change his mind.
-- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks Society and Culture Tear open packet, unfold and use.
-- Directions on moist towelette package Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins Society and Culture
"Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard)." (Edgar R. Fiedler) If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
-- Buckminster To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov Society and Culture How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
a leg.
-- Abraham Lincoln "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) Society and Culture
Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his
life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.
-- Francois Cavanna Society and Culture Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all
I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it."
-- Jerry Seinfeld "We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba Society and Culture
Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
-- Leslie Jeanne Sahler "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) Society and Culture I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and
members of the Senate.
-- Dan Quayle, Former Vice-President Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Society and Culture
"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) "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 Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is
that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one.
-- Anonymous But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell Society and Culture Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
-- Ralph Marston Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles 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 Society and Culture
It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to
benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.
-- Ralph Mars There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
imagination.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Society and Culture The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. Society and Culture
It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would
have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I
didn' All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin "Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) 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 Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas Society and Culture Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness
are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser
tha Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte "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
