life quotes to live by

A child educated only at school is an uneducated child. ~George Santayana



Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing worth knowing can be taught. ~Oscar Wilde, "The Critic as Artist," 1890



History is a melodrama on the theme of parasitism, characterized by scenes that are exciting or dull, as the case may be, and many a sudden stagetrick. ~Max Nordau, The Interpretation of History



Christian fundamentalism: the doctrine that there is an absolutely powerful, infinitely knowledgeable, universe spanning entity that is deeply and personally concerned about my sex life. ~Andrew Lias



There is no appeal from the ways of the world, which must continue on its own terms or take us all down with it into chaos and confusion. ~Mark van Doren



The gyms you go to are crowded with guys trying to look like men, as if being a man means looking the way a sculptor or an art director says. ~Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club, Chapter 6



A hair in the head is worth two in the brush. ~Oliver Herford



I wrote an ad for Apple Computer: "Macintosh - We might not get everything right, but at least we knew the century was going to end." ~Douglas Adams



Dreams digest the meals that are our days. ~Astrid Alauda, Dyspeptic Enlightenment



Those who wish to sing, always find a song. ~Swedish Proverb



The tongue is ever turning to the aching tooth. ~Thomas Fuller



We cannot blame the schools alone for the dismal decline in SAT verbal scores. When our kids come home from school do they pick up a book or do they sit glued to the tube, watching music videos? Parents, don't make the mistake of thinking your kid only learns between 9:00 a.m. and 3:00 p.m. ~George Bush



Laws: We know what they are, and what they are worth! They are spider webs for the rich and mighty, steel chains for the poor and weak, fishing nets in the hands of the government. ~Pierre Joseph Proudhon, quoted in The Match!



Golf is a game where white men can dress up as black pimps and get away with it. ~Robin Williams, 1986



My heart filled with love, flowing over with joy, my own little drum that I like to march by! ~Gunda Fijnje-Nolan



Ancient lovers believed a kiss would literally unite their souls, because the spirit was said to be carried in one's breath. ~Eve Glicksman Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate, now what's going to happen to us with both a House and a Senate? ~Will Rogers Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate, now what's going to happen to us with both a House and a Senate? ~Will Rogers



In a time when nothing is more certain than change, the commitment of two people to one another has become difficult and rare. Yet, by its scarcity, the beauty and value of this exchange have only been enhanced. ~Robert Sexton



The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal - that you can gather votes like box tops - is... the ultimate indignity to the democratic process. ~Adlai Stevenson, speech, Democratic National Convention, 18 August 1956



We were all involved in the death of John Kennedy. We tolerated hate; we tolerated the sick stimulation of violence in all walks of life; and we tolerated the differential application of law, which said that a man's life was sacred only if we agreed with his views. ~Martin Luther King, Jr., Why We Can't Wait, 1963



Zen martini: A martini with no vermouth at all. And no gin, either. ~P.J. O'Rourke