Expurgated Edition Quotes & Sayings

Until recently, the question was 'Why can't a woman be more like a man?' It should have been changed to 'Why can't both sexes be more like the best parts of each other?' Instead, the pendulum swung to the 1960s feminist lapel button Adam Was a First Draft. True enough. So are we all. — Warren Farrell

All I can tell you is that every family on the planet is dysfunctional and we celebrate occasions as generously as we know how to do. We are all doing our best to appear grateful to have one another. Weren't appearances worth something? — Dorothea Benton Frank

My job is to look at what politics is doing, not be a politician myself. — Antonio Tabucchi

She'll probably want to, once I show her how; as near as I can make out, most women, even young ones like her, like to cook: it's an instinct. — Philip K. Dick

We are the cosmos made conscious and life is the means by which the universe understands itself. — Brian Cox

On the average, a person who cares for other people, for his country, or for mankind, is a happier man than one who does not; but of what use is it to preach this doctrine to a man who cares for nothing but his own ease, or his own pocket? He cannot care for other people if he would. It is like preaching to the worm who crawls on the ground, how much better it would be for him if he were an eagle. — John Stuart Mill

When you doubt your ability to make a difference just remember you are alive for a reason. — Austin Wright

Conscientious men are, almost everywhere, less encouraged than tolerated. — Philibert Joseph Roux

We always monitor the flow of information, intelligence, threat streams to see whether we have any indication there's some imminent. We work hard to identify potential cells and disrupt them. This is one of the reasons we put so much emphasis on intelligence gathering. — Michael Chertoff

I refuse to dedicate my life to posterity. Surely one owes as much to the current generation as to one's unwanted children. What a fate - to grow rotund and unseemly, to lose my self-love, to think in terms of milk, oatmeal, nurse, diapers ... Dear dream children, how much more beautiful you are, dazzling little creatures who flutter (all dream children must flutter) on golden, golden wings. — F Scott Fitzgerald