Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up
our minds to walk boldly through them.
-- Orison Swett Marden As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde "... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) Society and Culture "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." (Dave Barry) Society and Culture
Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. Just
flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called
marriage.
-- James Holt McGavran Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein Society and Culture Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead Society and Culture
The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.
-- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War I tried a mail order bride, once, but she was damaged in the mail, and I had to return the unused part for my full refund. Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
-- Rita Rudner Society and Culture Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Society and Culture
"The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage
he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it.
-- Anon. "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw Society and Culture "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) 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 test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald Society and Culture
"In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By
giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you
will The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they
can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and
stupid from "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian Society and Culture "I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." (Mark Twain) Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana Society and Culture
Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard
Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3 I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. Society and Culture Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman "The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol Society and Culture
When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for
comprehensive health care during a candidates' forum, said he supported "erection-to-
resurrection" coverage. He later a The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday Society and Culture Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning
there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have
people all "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" 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) The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it.
And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.
-- George Bus Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent...
-- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported
in a contemporary "American Scholar" Society and Culture "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine "Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do
its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.
-- Society and Culture
The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince Society and Culture "Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours." (Dale Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words >From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud Society and Culture
If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle 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 "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H.L. Mencken Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart Society and Culture
It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for
comprehensive health care during a candidates' forum, said he supported "erection-to-
resurrection" coverage. He later a "Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god." (Jean Rostand) Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own
language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Society and Culture "Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
-- Walt Disney Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. Society and Culture
