"The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely
unnatural condition.
-- Robert Briffault Society and Culture 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 Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice "Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wit Society and Culture
Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavours to live the life which
one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
-- Henry David Thoreau Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken Society and Culture Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
-- Robert Benchley "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw Society and Culture
All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing
popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.
-- Dave Barry "Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) Society and Culture Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
-- Vladimir Nabokov The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous "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
Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
-- Satchel Paige blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy "Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) Society and Culture Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman "If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer Society and Culture
There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
wastes to Third Wo When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with
the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover,
What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous Society and Culture It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins Society and Culture
We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us.
-- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of
mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
-- Rita Mae Brown Society and Culture I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department
store and he asked for my autograph.
-- Shirley Temple Black Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner Society and Culture
English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Society and Culture If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas
doctors rob you and kill you too.
-- Anton Chekhov A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Guitry Society and Culture
Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the
top.
-- Ed Abbey We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us.
-- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton 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 Society and Culture Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be
built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
-- Anne S The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I Society and Culture
Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
-- Gertrude Stein, dying words America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau Society and Culture You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any
antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
-- Alfred Hitchcock "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Society and Culture
"I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
-- Erica Jong Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwile careers in the
street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack
of u Society and Culture There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) Society and Culture
"A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) 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 the social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for
all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation.
-- Peter "I put on an act sometimes, and people think I'm insensitive. Really, it's like a kind of armor because I'm too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I' It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley Society and Culture There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
-- Oscar Wilde You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) Society and Culture
