Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the
really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
-- Mark Twain Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anonymous The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not
"Eureka!", but "That's funny..."
-- Isaac Asimov How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy Society and Culture Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
-- Ralph Marston Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara "I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) Society and Culture
"Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day." (Ali bin If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
one.
-- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri "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 The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
-- Leslie Jeanne Sahler Society and Culture Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford He who laughs last didn't get it.
-- Helen Giangregorio "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) Society and Culture
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem Society and Culture "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves
beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
-- Al Rogers, Global SchoolHouse Netw Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. Society and Culture
Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in
a car he sticks his head out the window.
-- Steve Bluestone A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There
are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's
reall It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln "The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) Society and Culture The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning Society and Culture
"An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we
were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
-- John Stuart Mill Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-- Anonymous "All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) Society and Culture "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais Society and Culture
I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things.
-- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken Society and Culture Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso Society and Culture
I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
-- Anonymous Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. Society and Culture Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Society and Culture
We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all
the time. That would be hypocrisy.
-- Oscar Wilde Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
-- John Adams, dying words I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like
a black mistake.
-- D. H. Lawrence The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard Society and Culture "Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
bad ones.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. Society and Culture
Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it.
-- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer Society and Culture "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 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 Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately
becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in
those tiny toil Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde Society and Culture He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
-- Johnny Carson Society and Culture
"What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. 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 I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those
little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived Society and Culture Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) Society and Culture
