The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the
first half.
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley
Temple could do it at the age of four.
-- Katharine Hepburn Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way
of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all Society and Culture Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
-- Isaac B. Singer Society and Culture
Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." (Alexander Pope) I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being
gummed by a newt. It doesn't actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle.
-- Molly Ivins "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom Society and Culture We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
-- Jules Renard Society and Culture
"Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) "When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wro In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
-- Will Rogers Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five
isn't bad.
-- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 Society and Culture Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle
enough of them.
-- Flannery O'Connor When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his
cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that
Uncl There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty Society and Culture
Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from
both sides.
-- Margaret Thatcher Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart "No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, g Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
-- Lord Dewar Society and Culture If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I Society and Culture
I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
- Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable
statues The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue.
-- Anonymous Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
-- Anthony Burgess "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik Society and Culture If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best
to become the best you are capable of becoming.
-- John R. Wooden, Practical Modern Basketball Society and Culture
Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing. If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
- George Bernard Shaw 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.
-- Crow 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 Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and
blows up the bonfire.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Society and Culture
The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.
-- General Douglas MacArthur Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The
average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted
to Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you
get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a
I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha Society and Culture "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some
simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion.
-- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. Society and Culture
Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning
there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have
people all What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) "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 "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill Society and Culture
America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
-- Elvis Presley Society and Culture I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle Society and Culture
"It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality." (Francois Sagan) We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person
perfectly.
-- Anonymous It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy Society and Culture "A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. We are the echo of the future.
-- W. S. Merwin Society and Culture
We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous "See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and 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 Society and Culture "All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard Society and Culture
