Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the
lessons that history has to teach.
-- Aldous Huxley Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
-- Satchel Paige Society and Culture Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above
weakness I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-- Dorothy Parker "Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) Society and Culture
"I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song ... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more
aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since
Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In
this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
-- Marianne Williamson Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. Society and Culture It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by
the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off!
-- Douglas Jerold, 1858 Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso Society and Culture
"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) What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
-- Woody Allen One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do
what he was afraid he couldn't do.
-- Henry Ford It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Society and Culture Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
-- G. K. Chesterton Society and Culture
"If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine; as he
who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me.
-- Thomas Jefferson For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours Society and Culture Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. "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) Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
what you are getting.
-- Anonymous Society and Culture
Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat
guy in the third row exists?
-- Woody Allen I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being
gummed by a newt. It doesn't actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle.
-- Molly Ivins A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is
something everybody believes, except the person who made it.
-- Albert Einstein, attributed If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who,
doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a
machi Society and Culture "We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac Society and Culture
He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life
of another.
-- Helen Keller Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
pure ignorance?
-- Holbrook Jackson Society and Culture "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) "For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous Society and Culture
However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot "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) Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii Society and Culture Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
-- George Clemenceau The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton Society and Culture
A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little Society and Culture I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner "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) "I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) Society and Culture
Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than
the procreation of children.
-- Thornton Wilder "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Man and wife make one fool. Society and Culture "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) Society and Culture
Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. We are the echo of the future.
-- W. S. Merwin "The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.
-- R. Scott Richards Society and Culture Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage Society and Culture
"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) I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
-- Will Rogers When Baby's cries grew hard to bear I popped him in the Frigidaire. I never would have done so if
I'd known that he'd be frozen stiff. My wife said, "George, I'm so unhappy! Our darling's now
comple Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. Society and Culture To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson Society and Culture
