Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( "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) Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of
them, it's considered to be your style.
-- Fred Astaire Society and Culture A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been
all along.
-- Madeleine L'Engle Society and Culture
Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find
out how to do it.
-- Theodore Roosevelt The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Society and Culture "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed Society and Culture
"Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
-- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery
increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control
futur "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) Society and Culture Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words
that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
-- Alexander Pope 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
People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you
will become a philosopher.
-- Socrates I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
-- Jules Renard Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having
passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it.
-- Anonymous Society and Culture >From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea--written in red on every
beachhead form Australia to Tokyo--There is no substitute for victory!
-- General Douglas MacArthur What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell Society and Culture
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers What's new? Most of my wife. I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. Society and Culture Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how
to make it interesting.
-- Milton Berle, when called to the microphone at the 2nd Annual Comedians Hal And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery Society and Culture
"We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment... it's
exciting to have a real crisis on your hands.
-- Margaret Thatcher, on the Falklands Conflict This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises,
promotions, and other signs of appreciation.
-- Anonymous Society and Culture "For others do I wait ... for higher ones, stronger ones, more triumphant ones, merrier ones, for such as are built squarely in body and soul: laughing lions must come." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted.
-- Anonymous You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton Society and Culture
You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What
do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came
back with ano The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines
staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you
ask th Society and Culture "The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran Society and Culture
Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier. --H.L. Mencken Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
- James Stephens "Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) Society and Culture There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Society and Culture
Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including:
* Both of your socks should always be the same color
* Or they should at least both be fairly dark
-- Dave Barry Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly Society and Culture What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crowf "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) "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) Society and Culture
Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen
closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping.
-- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims
of intact ones.
-- Peter DeVries We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle Society and Culture Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
what you are getting.
-- Anonymous Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin Society and Culture
Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Society and Culture Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of
fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality
and More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne Society and Culture
