Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
-- James Stephens Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim
to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire.
-- Gen. George My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in
bed with her.
-- Lenny Bruce Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Society and Culture "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.
- Henry Kissinger Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them
down people's throats.
-- Howard Aiken Society and Culture
Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
-- Satchel Paige Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they
oppose it.
-- Sigmund Freud "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) "A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." (Fred Allen) Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife 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 If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry
that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
-- Dale Carnegie All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" Society and Culture
"I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
legislators.
-- P. J. O'Rourke "Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find
out how to do it.
-- Theodore Roosevelt "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Society and Culture It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell Society and Culture
The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
-- G. K. Chesterton blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power
so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics Society and Culture "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. "Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Society and Culture
Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat
guy in the third row exists?
-- Woody Allen Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
-- Samuel Johnson "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) Society and Culture Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
-- Satchel Paige If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the
advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first.
-- Benjamin Franklin Society and Culture
Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset "It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
imagination.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Society and Culture Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein Society and Culture
The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm "Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea.
-- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde Society and Culture "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 Society and Culture
"Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically!
-- Steven Wright The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a
philosopher.
- Socrates Society and Culture "A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never
were, and ask why not?
-- Robert Francis Kennedy The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. Society and Culture
He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
-- Erma Bombeck Society and Culture War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if
he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain Society and Culture
"The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door
and just visit now and then.
-- Katharine Hepburn Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner Society and Culture "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose
-- Jim Elliott Society and Culture
"Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
-- Robert Benchley "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare Society and Culture "There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) "A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it." (Claude Rains, as Mr. Dryden, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) Society and Culture
