"Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it
doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever
sea Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Steven Wright The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in
opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
-- Sydney Smith Society and Culture "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) "Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) Marriage is a rest period between romances. Society and Culture
I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
-- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius Society and Culture the social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for
all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation.
-- Peter The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than
the procreation of children.
-- Thornton Wilder "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) Society and Culture
I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, "I'd like some fries." The girl at the counter said,
"Would you like some fries with that?"
-- Jay Leno A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha 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 Society and Culture There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house
as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
-- Homer, Odyssey, ninth century In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman Society and Culture
"Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no
character.
-- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical
deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
-- Albert Einstein blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost Society and Culture Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Society and Culture
Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
newspapers.
-- Thomas Jefferson There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-- Benjamin Disraeli To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell Society and Culture Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle "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 As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln Society and Culture
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery 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 No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese Society and Culture Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham We have only one person to blame, and that's each other.
-- Barry Beck, New York Ranger, on who started a fight furing a hockey game Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi Society and Culture
"Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) "Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) Society and Culture Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin Society and Culture
Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way
to bet.
-- Damon Runyan Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent
crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry
inspe 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 Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't
natural.
-- Bob Beckel, on term limits, CBS This Morning, 3/30/95 If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama Society and Culture
Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
-- Mother Teresa The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." Society and Culture Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage,
he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it.
-- Helen Roland For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde Society and Culture
"Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) "Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Society and Culture Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
day into your answers.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke 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 Society and Culture
"Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton Society and Culture "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte Society and Culture
