“Popular culture has become engorged, broadening and thickening until it's the only culture anyone notices.” CulturePopular Culture Author:P. J. O'Rourke
“Predicting innovation is something of a self-canceling exercise: the most probable innovations are probably the least innovative.” SelfExerciseInnovationInnovativePredicting Author:P. J. O'Rourke
“The young are adept at learning, but even more adept at avoiding it.” YoungAvoidingVeteranAdept Author:P. J. O'Rourke
“It is nonsense to speak of 'higher' and 'lower' pleasures. To a hungry man it is, rightly, more important that he eat than that he philosophize.” MenImportantHappinessSpeakPleasureHigherHungryNonsenseHungry Man Author:W. H. Auden
“To be happy means to be free, not from pain or fear, but from care or anxiety.” MeanCarePainAnxiety Author:W. H. Auden
“Learning a foreign language, and the culture that goes with it, is one of the most useful things we can do to broaden the empathy and imaginative sympathy and cultural outlook of children.” ChildrenCultureLanguageCan DoEmpathySympathyOutlookImaginativeForeign LanguageUseful ThingsCulture And LanguageLanguage CultureForeign Culture Author:Michael Gove
“If you've had a good time playing the game, you're a winner even if you lose.” IfsGamesLosesWinnerGood TimesHad A Good Time Author:Malcolm Forbes
“For one person who dreams of making fifty thousand pounds, a hundred people dream of being left fifty thousand pounds.” PeoplePersonsDreamLeftThousandHundredFiftyPounds Author:A. A. Milne
“It's time to take the 'Men Only' sign off the White House door.” MenHousePoliticsWhiteDoorsWhite HouseSexismSigning Off Author:Carol Moseley Braun