In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
- Samuel Palmer There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's
age.
-- Modern Maturity 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 There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi Society and Culture Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb Society and Culture
"Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) "Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) Society and Culture "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) Society and Culture
Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the
commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete
answer. In fact, women's total ins "Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we
respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
-- H. L. Mencken The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with
the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
-- Cynthia Heimel Society and Culture 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. Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Society and Culture
Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of
suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room.
-- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi Society and Culture Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Society and Culture
Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
ages as much as 20 years.
-- Anonymous What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor 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' My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who
take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
-- INDIRA Society and Culture Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost "Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details." (Andy Warhol, America, 1985) Society and Culture
"Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." (Dylan Thomas) I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to
know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.
- Clarence Darrow, Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it
doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever
sea Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) Society and Culture Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt Society and Culture
"I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause
we believe to be just.
-- Abraham Lincoln Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwile careers in the
street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack
of u Society and Culture I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West Society and Culture
Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "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 Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Society and Culture "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) 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 "You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 Society and Culture
Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crowf First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell Society and Culture It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) Society and Culture
You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you
can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist.
-- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one.
-- Oscar Levant, to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee "I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
-- Will Rogers Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson Society and Culture There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be
said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot
successfully To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy Society and Culture
"No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous Society and Culture Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other
friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things:
and in that The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Society and Culture
