The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline
luggage.
-- Mark Russell 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 The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
-- Indigo Girls, song lyric Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare Society and Culture "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh Society and Culture
I didn't accept it. I received it.
-- Richard Allen, National Security Advisor to President Reagan, explaining the $1000 in cash and
two watches he was given by two Japanese journalists after he hel Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has
come.
-- Victor Hugo "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
gone beyond that.
-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic Society and Culture We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) Society and Culture
It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau "We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland Society and Culture A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows Society and Culture
Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
- H. G. Wells The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause
we believe to be just.
-- Abraham Lincoln The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or
theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
-- George Santayana I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) Society and Culture "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) Society and Culture
What's new? Most of my wife. Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
-- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) Society and Culture I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too.
When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing
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Icky icky icky icky fKANG zoop-boing n zowzyin...
-- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical
deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
-- Albert Einstein 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" It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills Society and Culture "I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always send them a plant to wish them well. Of course, it's a cactus." (Norman B Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away,
the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted
in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism.
-- Heidi Hartmann, The Unha Society and Culture
"Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing
matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.
-- Amy Bloom ...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) Society and Culture After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely
pleased to announce the appointment of David Steele to the post.
-- Philip Streifer, Superintendent Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-- Irwin Corey Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett Society and Culture
You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings "There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered." (Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom) Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi Society and Culture We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
-- Buck Henry Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create
it herself.
- Anais Nin Society and Culture
Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge Society and Culture blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house
as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
-- Homer, Odyssey, ninth century The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason Society and Culture
"I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
-- Ken Dodd We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa Society and Culture "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "The feminists used to say that chivalry and ladyhood were ways of keeping women down and preventing them from standing toe to toe with the guys. Now you've got a lot of women saying that if a guy is "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) Society and Culture
"Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) "I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle
enough of them.
-- Flannery O'Connor Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman Society and Culture "In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song Society and Culture
