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My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. "Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer "I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) Society and Culture "Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I Society and Culture
Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) "Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) "I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) Society and Culture Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances
continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the
distance Society and Culture
Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell "Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
-- Brian Pickrell Society and Culture Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke 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 Society and Culture
LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the
influences under which he incurred the disorder... It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the
physician There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would
be able to endure it.
-- Schopenhauer Society and Culture In the blithe days of honeymoon,
With Kate's allurements smitten,
I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon,
And call'd her dearest kitten.
But now my kitten's grown a cat,
And cross like other wives.
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 Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein Society and Culture
I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand "If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Society and Culture If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
- George Bernard Shaw When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his
life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.
-- Francois Cavanna True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo Society and Culture
You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. "Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em." (William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, II:5) The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
-- Niels Bohr blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde Society and Culture Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more
experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat
soiled or torn? What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples'
decisions for them?
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Society and Culture
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the
really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
-- Mark Twain "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson "We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana Society and Culture There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!
-- Calvin A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton Society and Culture
Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the
slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional
convi What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically,
ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion.
-- Fred Rogers, parody of "Row, row, row your boa Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
- Sir Winston Churchill Society and Culture Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like
a black mistake.
-- D. H. Lawrence A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing.
-- George Benard Shaw Society and Culture
Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb Society and Culture "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
-- Joseph Addison Society and Culture
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me
is another matter.
- Sir Winston Churchill There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer Society and Culture The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My
answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer
to that would be Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville "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) Society and Culture
A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had
never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
-- Orison Swett Marden Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
-- Herbert Westren Turnbull Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting Society and Culture The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows "If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) Society and Culture
