The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken "It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books--what other men do not say in whole books." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols) You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Society and Culture Well, I think that it's a- it's had some difficult times but I think we have- we, I think, have been able
to make some very good progress and it's- I would say that it's- it's- it's delightful that w "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) Society and Culture
He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln 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 Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw Man and wife make one fool. Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry Society and Culture Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday
afternoon.
-- Susan Ertz My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins Society and Culture
"I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
-- Benjamin Disraeli [You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley "The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) "The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi Society and Culture The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does
not stop until you get into the office.
-- Robert Frost Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that
can be shot when it breaks down.
-- Russell Baker "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) Society and Culture
"If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair." (Samuel Johnson) Never moon a werewolf.
-- Mike Binder May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My
answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer
to that would be "From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) Society and Culture For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely
unnatural condition.
-- Robert Briffault "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other
is ready.
-- Henry David Thoreau Society and Culture
"I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov Society and Culture An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
-- Robert A. Humphrey Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Society and Culture
To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically,
ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion.
-- Fred Rogers, parody of "Row, row, row your boa Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one.
-- Oscar Levant, to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for
love is measured by fullness, not by reception.
-- Harold Loukes "The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) Society and Culture A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family.
-- Navaho saying Every flower must grow through dirt.
-- Anonymous Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly Society and Culture
Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things!
-- Tom Lehrer Society and Culture "We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills Society and Culture
"Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a
minute, it's longer than any hour. That is relativity.
-- Albert Einstein Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills Society and Culture Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things!
-- Tom Lehrer Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause
we believe to be just.
-- Abraham Lincoln Society and Culture
You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
-- Elbert Hubbard I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
- Robert Orben Society and Culture "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown Society and Culture
The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth
shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.
-- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
-- Anonymous Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman 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 Society and Culture "Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard)." (Edgar R. Fiedler) 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 The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce Society and Culture
What's new? Most of my wife. "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi Society and Culture Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous Anything too stupid to be said, is sung.
-- Voltaire Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov Society and Culture
