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Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the
faculty of laughter.
-- Joseph Addison "The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) Society and Culture "I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles 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 Society and Culture
"Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein "Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who
take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
-- INDIRA Society and Culture Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large
organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.
-- Dave Barry If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara Society and Culture
We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
-- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer "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) The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle Society and Culture "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) Goodbye, Everybody!
-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp Society and Culture
The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the
custom of shaving.
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All Society and Culture Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson "Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." (Dylan Thomas) Society and Culture
"... adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, quoted in his obituary, Time) A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would
have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I
didn' Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi Society and Culture ... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more
aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since
When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't
have done.
-- Malcolm Forbes "Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) Society and Culture
A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby
see only a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney and continue on their way.
-- Vincent Van Gogh Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy
the waking hours much more.
-- Woody Allen Society and Culture Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead Society and Culture
If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
-- Woodrow Wyatt "'Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!'" (Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass) "Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Society and Culture I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire Society and Culture
America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
bad ones.
-- W. Somerset Maugham "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) In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) Society and Culture We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous Society and Culture
We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins "Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone He who laughs, lasts.
-- Mary Pettibone Poole Society and Culture 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 Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
-- Rita Rudner It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw Society and Culture
"What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards "To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "These are days you'll remember." If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony,
remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.
-- Christine Todd, NJ Governor, Whea Society and Culture 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 "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
-- George Santayana Society and Culture
It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) "Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron Society and Culture Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going
to make fun of you.
-- Woody Allen "Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures--in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together." Society and Culture
