All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it
is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) 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 "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) Society and Culture I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.
-- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his
campaign pledge that there would be Society and Culture
I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted
in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism.
-- Heidi Hartmann, The Unha "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." Society and Culture Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell 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 Society and Culture
"The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
bureaucracy won't.
-- Hyman Rickover blah "You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way
to bet.
-- Damon Runyan True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo Society and Culture Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) Society and Culture
Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince "A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon Society and Culture Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach "I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats." (Woody Allen, in regard to the KKK) "To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Society and Culture
"There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry In the end, everything is a gag.
- Charlie Chaplin You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) Society and Culture The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln 2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time.
-- inside of a Pepsi cap Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to
do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did.
-- Anonymous Society and Culture
Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage
he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it.
-- Anon. In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and
blows up the bonfire.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Society and Culture Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau "And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to Society and Culture
When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton 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 The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne Society and Culture Honor lies in honest toil.
-- Grover Cleveland My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who
take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
-- INDIRA The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Society and Culture
"Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god." (Jean Rostand) Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find
that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our
pain In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford Society and Culture Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage,
he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it.
-- Helen Roland "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) Society and Culture
Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous "Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker Society and Culture The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has
come.
-- Victor Hugo Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous Society and Culture
"In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald Society and Culture A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for
half the money.
-- Arthur Godfrey He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake Society and Culture
A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) "It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or
failure has been dependent on the one he used most.
-- George R. Kirkpatrick Society and Culture Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur Society and Culture
