"We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future
generations "Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. 2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time.
-- inside of a Pepsi cap Society and Culture Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
-- Pablo Picasso 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 In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is
simply one of those things which happen from time to time.
-- Edward P. Tryon Society and Culture
The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the
false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
-- Salvador Dali It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Society and Culture Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
-- Samuel Johnson Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Society and Culture
"The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') 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 "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) Society and Culture I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles Society and Culture
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 The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
-- Colin Wilson Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. "I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) Society and Culture >From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea--written in red on every
beachhead form Australia to Tokyo--There is no substitute for victory!
-- General Douglas MacArthur "It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince Society and Culture
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind
and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the
coachin "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) "The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Society and Culture "I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee.
-- Anonymous Society and Culture
"Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford "Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Society and Culture If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
-- Johnny Carson My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no
character.
-- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Society and Culture
Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
-- Phillip Brooks If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) "I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so Amer The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt Society and Culture If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-- Indian proverb To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde Society and Culture
"All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) "I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. Society and Culture If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell Society and Culture
It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
-- Benjamin Disraeli 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 It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
-- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind
and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the
coachin Society and Culture Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Boies Penrose, 1931 I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
and bought jewelry.
-- Rita Rudner To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide Society and Culture
The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him.
-- Cher The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) Society and Culture Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them
down people's throats.
-- Howard Aiken 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 Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson Society and Culture
Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy.
-- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain "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 "In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) "To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Society and Culture
