CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the
table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the
disg Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
automobile.
-- Billy Sunday "Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and
blows up the bonfire.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Society and Culture "Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to
learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
-- Michel de Montaigne America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait 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) I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion "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) Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead Society and Culture "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) I'll sleep when I'm dead.
- Warren Zevon Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger,
as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is
when you r Society and Culture
I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." (Mark Twain) "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine Society and Culture 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 He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being
gummed by a newt. It doesn't actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle.
-- Molly Ivins Society and Culture
Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
-- Oliver Herford Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra Society and Culture Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt "You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 Society and Culture
blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no
religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear
of 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 Society and Culture An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
-- Chekhov Society and Culture
I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X Society and Culture The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
bad ones.
-- W. Somerset Maugham You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be
sacrificed to expediency.
-- W. Somerset Maugham "Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms Society and Culture
There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
-- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
-- Buke Ellington Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
-- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde Society and Culture Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings "I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) Society and Culture
If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would
be able to endure it.
-- Schopenhauer "Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) "Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( "Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain Society and Culture "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin Society and Culture
Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was
60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is.
-- Ellen DeGeneres When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll Society and Culture "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?
-- Michael Meissner "The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) Society and Culture
Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine "I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Society and Culture They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.
-- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the
House Bank scandal "My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go." (Oscar Wilde, his last recorded words) Per cubic inch, your current TV set is perhaps the dumbest appliance in your home (and I'm not
even talking about the programs).
-- Nicholas Negroponte Society and Culture
Here's to you and here's to me,
and I hope we never disagree.
But, if that should ever be,
to HELL with you, here's to ME!
-- Anonymous A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no
religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear
of Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
--Loesje We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. Society and Culture "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) "Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored..." (Herman Melville, Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager Society and Culture
