While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine; as he
who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me.
-- Thomas Jefferson If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
- Paul Erdos Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not
mean his maker, but himself.
-- Dean Inge Society and Culture Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
-- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) Society and Culture
Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can
only read the title.
-- Virginia Woolf If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra Society and Culture "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anonymous This compact disc is made from analog masters recorded without noise reduction. Half the tracks,
in fact, were recorded in a dismal, cheap basement eight-track studio with puddles of water on
the fl Society and Culture
"A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) I have a daughter who goes to SMU. She could've gone to UCLA here in California, but it's one
more letter she'd have to remember.
-- Shecky Greene Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
-- Oliver Herford A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
-- Joseph Addison Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
-- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act i. Sc. 1. Society and Culture Vote early and vote often.
- Al Capone A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison Society and Culture
Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Jake liked his women the way he liked his kiwi fruit: sweet yet tart, firm-fleshed yet yielding to the
touch, and covered with short brown fuzzy hair.
-- Jonathan S. Haas He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop Society and Culture Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy Society and Culture
"How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore
exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.
-- Slavoj Zizek "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) Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness
are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser
tha When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
-- Clarence Darrow Society and Culture "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.
-- Tom Robbins I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton Society and Culture
"I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's
arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
-- Jonathan Carroll, Outside The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee 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 "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it.
And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.
-- George Bus "Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) Society and Culture
Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away,
the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. "In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are
romantic dreamers and actually believe that estrogenic skin cream must do something or they
couldn't cha The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical
deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
-- Albert Einstein "Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) Society and Culture A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb "Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the
influences under which he incurred the disorder... It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the
physician Society and Culture
Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
-- G. K. Chesterton "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper "The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni Society and Culture "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) the social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for
all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation.
-- Peter I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber Society and Culture
Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
day into your answers.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call
me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
-- Rebecca West, At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Society and Culture The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline
luggage.
-- Mark Russell If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-- Abraham Lincoln "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Society and Culture
Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand "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 Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) Society and Culture 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 Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Society and Culture
Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein Society and Culture When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
-- Mae West Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. Society and Culture
