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"It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books--what other men do not say in whole books." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols) Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and
cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
-- Tom Robbins Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley Society and Culture Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
- H. G. Wells If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways
to be, you know that there are...
-- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton Society and Culture
For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of
pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.
-- Lyster A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words
that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
-- Alexander Pope I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was
doing spying.
-- Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets for spying, in an i "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to
learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
-- Michel de Montaigne Society and Culture At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in
every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and Beginning in February 1976 your assistance benefits will be discontinued ... Reason: it has been
reported to our office that you expired on January 1, 1976.
-- excerpt from a letter, Illinois Depart I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen Society and Culture
In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-- Irwin Corey Society and Culture You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi "To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Society and Culture
A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler Society and Culture I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to
me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
-- Lucille Ball It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein Society and Culture
The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) "God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker Society and Culture University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Society and Culture
If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I
believed in liberals...
-- G. K. Chesterton Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." Society and Culture A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) Society and Culture
It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
-- Leslie Jeanne Sahler "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes
in search of martyrdom is that the former expresses his idea most fully in death while the latter
really One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
bureaucracy won't.
-- Hyman Rickover Society and Culture I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.
-- Barbara Bush, first lady, 1989 May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. "It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books--what other men do not say in whole books." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols) Society and Culture
Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because
generally they are the same people.
-- G. K. Chesterton In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
-- Christopher Morley 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 Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you
a hundre Society and Culture "The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner Society and Culture
Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb Here's to you and here's to me,
and I hope we never disagree.
But, if that should ever be,
to HELL with you, here's to ME!
-- Anonymous God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain Society and Culture There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and
inex 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 "Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms Society and Culture
This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
-- Libbie Fudim Society and Culture blah "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan Society and Culture
Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one
should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do
not allow I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and
blows up the bonfire.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Society and Culture I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had
never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
-- Orison Swett Marden By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
a fortune Society and Culture
