"I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
-- Oliver Herford "The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain
terrible.
-- Jean Kerr What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat
guy in the third row exists?
-- Woody Allen Health In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the
unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is
also the m Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own
language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. Health
Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. "I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the
opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
-- Oscar W Health In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West Marriage is a rest period between romances. Health
If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model.
Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush...
-- Dawn French Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and
tomorrow aint as bad as it seems.
-- Billy Joel "The bite of conscience, like the bite of a dog into a stone, is a stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
- Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming Health "The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) In the end, everything is a gag.
- Charlie Chaplin Health
>From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea--written in red on every
beachhead form Australia to Tokyo--There is no substitute for victory!
-- General Douglas MacArthur It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton We are the echo of the future.
-- W. S. Merwin Health Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware;
those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software.
-- Unknown author, Levitating T Health
"Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any compliment and limit, but only o Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of
mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
-- Rita Mae Brown Health "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde Health
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
-- Albert Einstein "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
- Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly good I thee endow.
-- Wedding Vow, Book of Common Prayer Health "The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover Health
In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is
simply one of those things which happen from time to time.
-- Edward P. Tryon My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at
heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels,
upon the lev Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards Health "It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H.L. Mencken Health
Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the
consequences.
-- Isadora Duncan If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. Health "The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) Saying that Windows95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and
believing you've witnessed the second coming.
-- Guy Kawasaki Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder Health
"I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous "If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair." (Samuel Johnson) Health Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
neighborhood.
-- Maya Angelou "To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne Health
"There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.
-- R. Scott Richards "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the
top.
-- Ed Abbey Health We can say 'Peace on Earth,' we can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have
not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us, then it will not be.
-- Betty Shabazz Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Health
Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The
average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted
to "If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair." (Samuel Johnson) Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet
enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p Health The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
-- Ambrose Bierce Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
-- Albert Einstein Health
