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I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph Society and Culture "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde "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) Society and Culture
Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all
the time. That would be hypocrisy.
-- Oscar Wilde Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop
questioning.
-- Albert Einstein Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson Society and Culture Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker Society and Culture
Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by
trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by l Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
can't read.
-- Frank Zappa If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis Society and Culture I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each
other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's
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The nourishment is palatable.
-- Millard Fillmore, dying words Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito Establishing yourself, furnishing a house, building up a comfortable existence, and having that menace hanging over your head all the time - no, I prefer to live in hotels, cafés, just passing through Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason Society and Culture Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
-- Tom Robbins Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
-- Erica Jong Society and Culture
I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin "I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free." (Walker Percy, The Moviegoer) Society and Culture When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland "Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa Society and Culture
"Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation." (Larry Flynt) A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell "God is dead: but considering the state Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom) Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) Society and Culture "Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are
capable of being.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton Society and Culture
"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) There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
- Robert Frost Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
definition, is unassailable.
-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 "Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures--in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together." Society and Culture Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The
premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool.
-- Kelvin Throop I A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) Society and Culture
cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
gone beyond that.
-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken 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 This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley Society and Culture 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 No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been
all along.
-- Madeleine L'Engle Society and Culture
Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate,
the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
-- Rainer Maria Ril Society and Culture "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) An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) Society and Culture
If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) .. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over
myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long
per Society and Culture "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) "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing
they die earlier.
-- H. L. Mencken Society and Culture
blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that
can be shot when it breaks down.
-- Russell Baker "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman Society and Culture It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) Society and Culture
