Quotes About Culture

There are eight million stories in the naked city. This has been one of them.

When Gandhi was asked what he thought of Western civilization, he said, "It would be nice."

A proverb and a byword among all people.

In the old days a man who saved money was a miser; nowadays he's a wonder.

The Ugly American

Drag is when a man wears everything a lesbian won't.

No woman can be too rich or too thin.

When told the reason for Daylight Saving time the old Indian said, "Only a white man would believe that you could cut a foot off the top of a blanket and sew it to the bottom of a blanket and have a longer blanket."

In America you can buy bucket-sized cups of coffee in any flavour you like other than coffee-flavour.

She's gone with the wraggle-taggle gypsies, O!

Anyone acquainted with Ireland knows that the morning of St. Patrick's Day consists of the night of the seventeenth of March flavored strongly with the morning of the eighteenth.

Oh, Paddy, dear, an' did ye hear the news that's goin' round? The shamrock is forbid by law to grow on Irish ground! No more St. Patrick's Day we'll keep, his colour can't be seen, For there's a cruel law agin' the Wearin' o' the green.

Bass fishermen watch Monday night football, drink beer, drive pickup trucks and prefer noisy women with big breasts. Trout fishermen watch MacNeil-Lehrer, drink white wine, drive foreign cars with passenger-side air bags and hardly think about women at all. This last characteristic may have something to do with the fact that trout fishermen spend most of the time immersed up to the thighs in ice-cold water.

English is a funny language; that explains why we park our car on the driveway and drive our car on the parkway.

If a woman have long hair, it is a glory to her.

It is the Russians' joy to drink; we cannot do without it.

Tea is liquid wisdom.

Cinco de Mayo makes me long for a world in which all holidays are conveniently named after the dates on which they fall.

Use of advanced messaging technology does not imply an endorsement of western industrial civilization.

Wisdom is not bought.

Not even God is wise enough.

Ab urbe condita [Since the founding of the city (Rome)].

An egg is dear on Easter Day.

Let the woman into Paradise, she'll bring her cow along.