Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and
illiterate sport fishermen.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
-- Seen on a t-shirt A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) "Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) Society and Culture There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. 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 Society and Culture
To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of
your life.
-- Abbie M. Dale The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent
crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry
inspe "Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer "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 A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb Society and Culture
"The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that
M&Ms really do melt in your hand...
-- Peter Oakley Society and Culture Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.
- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash Society and Culture
We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx 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 "Whether it is a black cat or a white cat, as long as it can catch the rat, it is a good cat." (Deng Xiao Ping) If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be
closed for any other business.
-- Abraham Lincoln We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters Society and Culture Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and
quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that
remains fa Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg Society and Culture
A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He
experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of
optic "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard Society and Culture Anything too stupid to be said, is sung.
-- Voltaire It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Society and Culture
"Those who feel certainty are stupid and those with any imagination or understanding are filled with doubt and indecision." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The
rest is trust.
-- Nanette Newman, British actress There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has
come.
-- Victor Hugo Society and Culture All you need is love.
-- The Beatles, song title Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree
to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full
of grac A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe Society and Culture
Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes
some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny.
-- George Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain Society and Culture 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) They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to
get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
-- Billie Holliday "Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) Society and Culture
Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes When you're away, I'm restless, lonely
Wretched, bored, dejected; only
here's the rub, my darling dear,
I feel the same when you are here.
-- Samuel Hoffenstein Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) Society and Culture The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
freedom.
-- Albert Einstein Society and Culture
If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment.
-- Voltaire The child is the father of the man.
-- William Wordsworth If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. "A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it." (Claude Rains, as Mr. Dryden, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
-- Mother Teresa Society and Culture To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm Society and Culture
It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little
plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.
-- Ha "To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Society and Culture Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy
together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back
on at Society and Culture
A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
--Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" "People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult." (Anne Society and Culture There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) Society and Culture
