"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) Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find
out how to do it.
-- Theodore Roosevelt When you're away, I'm restless, lonely
Wretched, bored, dejected; only
here's the rub, my darling dear,
I feel the same when you are here.
-- Samuel Hoffenstein As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries Society and Culture "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 Society and Culture
Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte "To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
-- George Bernard Shaw The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. Society and Culture How could they tell?
-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died They were doing a full back shot of me in a swimsuit and I thought, Oh my God, I have to be so
brave. See, every woman hates herself from behind.
-- Cindy Crawford, supermodel Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason Society and Culture
They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to
get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
-- Billie Holliday He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
-- Edgar Watson Howe Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant "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 I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, "I'd like some fries." The girl at the counter said,
"Would you like some fries with that?"
-- Jay Leno "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns Society and Culture
May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. "When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein Society and Culture "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous Society and Culture
A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde Society and Culture If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx Society and Culture
I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
-- Margaret Mead I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. Society and Culture .. 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 Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
-- Sigmund Freud Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper Society and Culture
Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
bathroom in the middle of it.
-- Nick Mirov Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar Society and Culture An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Society and Culture
Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
-- George Santayana The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. Society and Culture Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the
second, "For my best friend."
-- Anonymous Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken Society and Culture
The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton "Friends are those people who know the words to the song in your heart and sing them back to you when you have forgotten the words." (Anonymous) A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
-- Edgar Watson Howe Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead Society and Culture Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings Society and Culture
If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley Society and Culture "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
-- Leslie Jeanne Sahler Society and Culture
Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. Society and Culture Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they
oppose it.
-- Sigmund Freud "In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) "Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it Society and Culture
