With sociology one can do anything and call it work

Culture is a way of coping with the world by defining it in detail.

If God had been a liberal, we wouldn't have had the Ten Commandments - we'd have the Ten Suggestions.

To put it another way: a conference is an elite meeting on equal terms; a congress is a group of elites meeting on opposite terms; a convention is a mob meeting on equal terms; a course is an elite instructing a mob; and a colloquium is a group capable of considering all these phenomena.

Here we have a saying: a good friend is someone who visits you when you are in prison. But a really good friend is someone who comes to hear your lectures.

My experience of ships is that on them one makes an interesting discovery about the world. One finds one can do without it completely.

Most beds aren't as intimate as people think they are.