If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
- George Bernard Shaw There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein "For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky Society and Culture Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers Society and Culture
The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going
to make fun of you.
-- Woody Allen A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Guitry A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
-- Christopher Morley No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
-- Booker T. Washington Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson Society and Culture The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) "Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) "Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) Society and Culture
"The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus Society and Culture Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
-- Samuel Butler All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley Society and Culture
Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper "I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley "Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) Society and Culture Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. Just
flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous Society and Culture
I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
-- Shane Leslie And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts,
in living color, you're about to see another first -- an attempted suicide.
-- Chris Hubbock, who sh Society and Culture The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
-- Brian Pickrell Society and Culture
"There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) "It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline
luggage.
-- Mark Russell "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler Society and Culture Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the
influences under which he incurred the disorder... It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the
physician To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert Society and Culture
Correction: Instead of being arrested, as we stated, for kicking his wife down a flight of stairs and hurling a lighted kerosene lamp after her, the Rev. James P. Wellman died unmarried four years ago "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender 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 Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot Society and Culture I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that
M&Ms really do melt in your hand...
-- Peter Oakley "The feminists used to say that chivalry and ladyhood were ways of keeping women down and preventing them from standing toe to toe with the guys. Now you've got a lot of women saying that if a guy is blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) Society and Culture
Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of
responsibility at the other.
-- Ronald Reagan, Saturday Evening Post, 1965 I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen Society and Culture He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
-- Terry Cohen Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels The telephone company is urging people to *please* not use the telephone unless it is absolutely
necessary in order to keep the lines open for emergency personnel. We'll be right back after this
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Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple May you never leave your marriage alive. Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery Society and Culture Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as
possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature
intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times
worse tha Society and Culture
To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
-- Samuel Johnson I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live Society and Culture During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
-- Emiliano Zapata The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold Society and Culture
The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce
intelligence.
-- Philo Vance Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute
for life.
-- Andrew Brown Society and Culture It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
- Sir Winston Churchill Society and Culture
