People/Intelligence/Manners
98% of the population is
asleep. The other 2% are staring around in complete amazement, abject terror,
or both.
A child is a person who
can't understand why someone would give away a perfectly good kitten. - Doug
Larson
A PBS mind in an MTV
world.
A synonym is a word you
use in place of one you can't spell.
Certain flaws are
necessary for the whole. It would seem strange if old friends lacked certain
quirks. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Every good friend once
was a stranger.
Experience is that
marvelous thing that enables you recognize a mistake when you make it again. -
F. P. Jones
Human beings, who are
almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are
also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so. - Douglas Adams, Last
Chance to See
I can't give you brains,
but I can give you a diploma. - the Wizard of Oz
I have a fascination for
people. I don't like them all, but I have a fascination with human nature. -
Tori Amos
I'm not a complete idiot
- several parts are missing.
I'm old enough to know
better but I'm still too young to care.
If one looks with a cold
eye at the mess man has made of history, it is difficult to avoid the
conclusions that he has been afflicted by some built-in mental disorder which
drives him towards self-destruction. - Arthur Koestler
If we are the only
intelligent life in the universe, at least there's a finite number of idiots. -
Steven Coallier
If you give what you do
not need, it isn't giving. - Mother Teresa
Illegal aliens have
always been a problem in the United States. Ask any Indian. - Robert Orben
In a time of drastic
change it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned usually find
themselves equipped to live in a world that no longer exists. - Eric Hoffer
Intelligence is like
underwear, everyone has it but you don't have to show it off.
It is not best that we
all think alike; it is difference of opinion that makes horse races. - Mark
Twain, Pudd'nhead Wilson
It's so simple to be
wise. Just think of something stupid to say and then don't say it. - Sam
Levenson
Kindness is the
beginning of cruelty. - Frank Herbert: Dune
Laughter is day, and
sobriety is night; a smile is the twilight that hovers gently between both,
more bewitching than either. - Henry Ward Beecher
My mind rebels at
stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse
cryptogram, or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper
atmosphere. I can dispense then with artificial stimulants. But I abhor the
dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation. - Sherlock Holmes to
Dr. Watson: The Sign of Four
Natives who beat drums
to drive off evil spirits are objects of scorn to smart Americans who blow
horns to break up traffic jams. - Mary Ellen Kelly
Order is for idiots,
genius can handle chaos.
Perhaps once in a
hundred years a person may be ruined by excessive praise, but surely once every
minute someone dies inside for lack of it. - Cecil G. Osborne
Show me a sane man and I
will cure him for you. - Carl Gustav Jung
Skill without
imagination has produced usable items...like wicker picnic baskets..
Imagination without skill has produced... modern art.
Some fellows pay a
compliment like they expect a receipt. - Kin Hubbard
Some of the most
wonderful people are the ones who don't fit into boxes. - Tori Amos
Sometimes the insane and
the contrarians and the ones who are closest to suicide are the most valuble
people society has. They may be precursors of social change. They've taken the
burdens of the culture onto themselves, and in their struggle to solve their
own problems they're solving problems for the culture as well. - Robert M.
Pirsig, Lila
Subtlety is the art of
saying what you think and getting out of the way before it is understood.
The dumber people think
you are, the more surprised they're going to be when you kill them. - William
Clayton
The Iron Rule: Don't do
for others what, given the chance, they wouldn't do for themselves.
The most merciful thing
in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its
contents. - H.P Lovecraft, "Call of Cthulhu"
The only normal people
are the ones you don't know very well. - Joe Ancis
The only substitute for
bad manners is fast reflexes.
The real art of
conversation is not only to say the right thing at the right place but to leave
unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment. - Dorothy Nevill
The reason people blame
things on the previous generations is that there's only one other choice. –
Doug Larson
The trouble with being
punctual is that people think you have nothing more important to do.
There are only two truly
infinite things, the universe and stupidity. And I am unsure about the
universe. - Albert Einstein
There is a great deal of
difference between the eager man who wants to read a book, and the tired man
who wants a book to read. - G.K. Chesterton
To the intelligent man
or woman, life appears infinitely mysterious. But the stupid have an answer for
every question.
We are all born
ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid. - Benjamin Franklin
When subtlety fails us,
we must simply make do with cream pies.
Wit is educated
insolence. - Aristotle
You can't be truly rude
until you understand good manners. - Rita Mae Brown
You white people are so
strange. We think it is very primitive for a child to have only two parents. -
Australian Aboriginal Elder