The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent
crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry
inspe Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau Society and Culture The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and
remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't
work and the >From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea--written in red on every
beachhead form Australia to Tokyo--There is no substitute for victory!
-- General Douglas MacArthur "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) Society and Culture
Weaseling out of things is good. It's what separates us from the other animals....except weasels.
-- Homer Simpson, character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back.
-- Henny Youngman Society and Culture I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
-- Walt Disney My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. ...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words Society and Culture
The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe Not to anticipate is already to moan.
-- Leonardo da Vinci Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.
-- King George V Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Society and Culture "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) MARRIAGE, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two
slaves, making in all, two.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Society and Culture
It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) "In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) Society and Culture Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already
were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Society and Culture
"The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez "One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Society and Culture It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that
no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
-- Paul Dirac It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley Society and Culture
You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things!
-- Tom Lehrer I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha "It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Society and Culture If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
-- Emiliano Zapata Society and Culture
Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain "From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner Society and Culture Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) Society and Culture
In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how
many can get through to you.
-- Mortimer J. Adler I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison "I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the
outward behavior.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) Society and Culture "The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill Society and Culture
I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) Society and Culture Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
-- Oscar Wilde The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 Society and Culture
God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at
the same time.
- Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be
said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot
successfully Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald Society and Culture Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy
contests, but they keep the crowd's attention.
-- Anonymous Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh Society and Culture
"I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson Society and Culture Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) Society and Culture
