If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin Vote early and vote often.
- Al Capone As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust
there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
-- Andre Norton "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin Society and Culture I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp "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
"You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is
merely a good excuse not to play football.
-- Fran Lebowitz An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie 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 Society and Culture If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer "I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
teachers.
-- Socrates Society and Culture
I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement
speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have
th There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Society and Culture "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
-- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. Society and Culture
"The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something
different.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine 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 "I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs
long enough."
-- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone Society and Culture Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it,
Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me
de "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) Society and Culture
Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud "In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) Society and Culture There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be
paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's
life There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea.
-- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone Society and Culture
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Society and Culture All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take
what I have to give.
-- Cass Daley Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous Society and Culture
Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
- James Stephens 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 What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crow "Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be
feasible.
- A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop Society and Culture The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Society and Culture
Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
-- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking
campaign It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed.
They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position.
-- John Hogan, Commonwealth "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) Society and Culture "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never
were, and ask why not?
-- Robert Francis Kennedy "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) Society and Culture
If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your
thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be.
-- Richard Mitchell, from Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius Society and Culture In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin "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 "Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Society and Culture
Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Boies Penrose, 1931 "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia 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 Society and Culture Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman Society and Culture
Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
-- Oliver Herford "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard "Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss." (Hal Holbrook, Wallstreet) The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute
for life.
-- Andrew Brown Society and Culture An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
-- Robert Browning My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in
bed with her.
-- Lenny Bruce Society and Culture
