The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James "Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
newspapers.
-- Thomas Jefferson Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Social Scientists A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman
is one who can find such a man.
-- Lana Turner Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman Social Scientists
Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with
the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
-- Cynthia Heimel There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
-- Albert Einstein Social Scientists Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: "Give little, give seldom, and above all,
give grudgingly." Otherwise, what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of
sexual The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
-- Robert M. Pirsig Social Scientists
Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb Social Scientists If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One
cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the
marvelous str Social Scientists
He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really
lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.
-- Herman Melville "It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing." (Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises) Social Scientists It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) Social Scientists
I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
-- Albert Einstein English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower "Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi Social Scientists "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
-- Martin Mull Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas
doctors rob you and kill you too.
-- Anton Chekhov Social Scientists
There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has
come.
-- Victor Hugo Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point Social Scientists Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde Social Scientists
Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
-- Helen Keller blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Social Scientists Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to
vote for Colonel Sanders.
-- Bob Inglis, 1995 This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes
time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.
-- Fred Astaire "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Social Scientists
Go away...I'm alright.
-- H. G. Wells, dying words Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin Social Scientists When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland "Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller Social Scientists
"Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) "The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Social Scientists Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
-- Anthony Burgess Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I ask
is a chance."
-- Anon. Social Scientists
Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other
friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things:
and in that All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. Social Scientists Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
write better.
- A. J. Liebling Social Scientists
Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique
added to the armamentarium of political inquiry. Anyone who cannot negotiate Chi squares,
assess randomi If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa Social Scientists Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
-- Polish proverb To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
--Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same
joke and still feel lonely.
-- T. S. Eliot Social Scientists
