An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One
looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our
human I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. we are for the most part
more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.
-- Thoreau A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson 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 Society and Culture The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
car.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
-- Scott Adams Society and Culture
Man and wife make one fool. "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
teachers.
-- Socrates Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
-- Oscar Wilde "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) Society and Culture The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin Society and Culture
Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
-- Oscar Wilde I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito Society and Culture Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
-- Ray Bandy Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop
questioning.
-- Albert Einstein Society and Culture
"The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely
unnatural condition.
-- Robert Briffault Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison "Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take
what I have to give.
-- Cass Daley Society and Culture We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his ownself in his own hands. Like water. And if he
opens his fingers then- he needn't hope to find himself again.
-- Robert Bolt from A Man For All Seas Society and Culture
"I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger "To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) "Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) Society and Culture Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words When Baby's cries grew hard to bear I popped him in the Frigidaire. I never would have done so if
I'd known that he'd be frozen stiff. My wife said, "George, I'm so unhappy! Our darling's now
comple "There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered." (Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom) Society and Culture
"Every now and then say, 'What the fu(c)k.' 'What the fu(c)k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future." (Curtis Armstrong, Risky Business, 1983) "Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it." (Colin Powell) Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner "The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) Society and Culture "The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer Society and Culture
A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli "I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their
graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort.
-- Sydney Smith Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best
to become the best you are capable of becoming.
-- John R. Wooden, Practical Modern Basketball Society and Culture Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon Society and Culture
I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in
charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
-- Hen "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
freedom.
-- Albert Einstein To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to
know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.
- Clarence Darrow, Society and Culture Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett Society and Culture
Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
-- Seen on a t-shirt Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) Society and Culture The nourishment is palatable.
-- Millard Fillmore, dying words "Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein Society and Culture
I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) "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) Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley
Temple could do it at the age of four.
-- Katharine Hepburn Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels Society and Culture You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy
together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back
on at In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce Society and Culture
Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for
themselves.
-- F. Emerson Andrews How could they tell?
-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you
together, but do so with all your heart.
-- Marcus Aurelius The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the
purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
-- Anatole France Society and Culture University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger Society and Culture
