To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating
influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the
commun "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") Health A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they
can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and
stupid from Women's liberationists spread the word that...the only peaceful family is one in which either the
wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous.
-- R. Emmett Tyell, The Liberal Crack-Up, 1984 Health
An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
-- Igor Stravinsky We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen
closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping.
-- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di Health Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
-- Robert Benchley "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous Health
Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going
to make fun of you.
-- Woody Allen "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein Health You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) Health
A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and
illiterate sport fishermen.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Honor lies in honest toil.
-- Grover Cleveland If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils Health Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass
produced with unskilled labor.
-- Wernher von Braun Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve Vote early and vote often.
- Al Capone Health
"One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
-- G. K. Chesterton The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be
feasible.
- A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) "Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi Health The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz Health
"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) "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do
its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.
-- I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism. --Heidi Hartmann [The Unhappy Health "Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard)." (Edgar R. Fiedler) If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Steven Wright Health
The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not
know what to create.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
-- Shane Leslie "Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous Health Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
-- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Health
Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain
as marijuana...The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two, but can't
remember what It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein Health I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
- Bill Hirst See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright Health
"Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they
study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.
-- Gerald Early, writer, baseball do Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
- James Stephens "It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality." (Francois Sagan) Health Per cubic inch, your current TV set is perhaps the dumbest appliance in your home (and I'm not
even talking about the programs).
-- Nicholas Negroponte Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.
-- R. Scott Richards I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
write better.
- A. J. Liebling Health
Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
-- George Clemenceau People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only
make $500,000.
-- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the
consequences.
-- Isadora Duncan Health The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine Health
Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous
and dreadful.
-- Samuel Johnson May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp Health Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
a leg.
-- Abraham Lincoln Health
