"One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action
of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. "In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings Society and Culture Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis "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) "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Society and Culture
The soul is healed by being with children.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevski The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings The child is the father of the man.
-- William Wordsworth "We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery Society and Culture Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you
have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.
-- Aldous Huxley My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) Society and Culture
Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch "Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wit Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it.
-- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want,
and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.
-- Fred Astaire Society and Culture "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) He who laughs, lasts.
-- Mary Pettibone Poole Society and Culture
Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner "I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos--especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom ... Rather than starting inside, I start ou I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. Spinster: A bachelor's wife. Society and Culture Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
- Karl Wallenda Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does
not change his mind.
-- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks Study men, not historians.
-- Harry Truman Society and Culture
"Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
-- Johnny Carson You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark
in one another.
-- Kenny Ausubel Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? Society and Culture Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury Society and Culture
Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard
Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3 The telephone company is urging people to *please* not use the telephone unless it is absolutely
necessary in order to keep the lines open for emergency personnel. We'll be right back after this
bre Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and
cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
-- Tom Robbins 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 Society and Culture A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
-- Buke Ellington "In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 Society and Culture
"Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) "Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain
as marijuana...The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two, but can't
remember what 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 Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
-- Robert Benchley Society and Culture Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 Society and Culture
I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming 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 "I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I
believed in liberals...
-- G. K. Chesterton Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on
a date.
-- Caroline Rhea Society and Culture "In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca Society and Culture
Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing
matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.
-- Amy Bloom Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
-- Sioux Indian Prayer If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry
that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
-- Dale Carnegie "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada Society and Culture My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde Society and Culture
Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
-- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin Society and Culture "By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) "There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips." (Elsa Lanchester) Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the
writing will be just as it should be.
-- Mark Twain Society and Culture
The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Society and Culture When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde Society and Culture
