Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery
increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control
futur "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) 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 "I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed Society and Culture
"I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller "In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat." (Robert Byrne) People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan Society and Culture I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never
be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
-- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin "Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra) Society and Culture
Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
-- Phillip Brooks The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
newspapers.
-- Thomas Jefferson The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it.
And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.
-- George Bus "Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Society and Culture Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad Society and Culture
Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
-- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
- Lucille S. Harper Society and Culture Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his ownself in his own hands. Like water. And if he
opens his fingers then- he needn't hope to find himself again.
-- Robert Bolt from A Man For All Seas Society and Culture
I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana "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 It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais "The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) Society and Culture 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 I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things!
-- Tom Lehrer Society and Culture
Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own
language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder Society and Culture Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
automobile.
-- Billy Sunday We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. Society and Culture
The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt "The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) I tried a mail order bride, once, but she was damaged in the mail, and I had to return the unused part for my full refund. "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Society and Culture A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra "You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru Society and Culture
If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
- George Bernard Shaw "Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone "Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) Society and Culture They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) Society and Culture
There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
-- Elbert Hubbard You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill Goodbye, Everybody!
-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. Society and Culture Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first
comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman Society and Culture
"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) "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) "In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson Society and Culture Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely
to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the
writing will be just as it should be.
-- Mark Twain Society and Culture
One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if
possible, speak a few reasonable words.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
and bought jewelry.
-- Rita Rudner Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically!
-- Steven Wright Society and Culture "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
-- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers Society and Culture
