"Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
-- Roger Simon That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries Food I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry
that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
-- Dale Carnegie Food
Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham "It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing." (Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises) Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a
brand new ending.
-- Anonymous A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer "All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) Food We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to
help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to
comfort us along Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton Food
The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the
first half.
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) "Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. Food Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
freedom.
-- Albert Einstein Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) Food
Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of
them become real as you can.
-- Frank W. Woolworth There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never
were, and ask why not?
-- Robert Francis Kennedy He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner "It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck Food You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you
can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist.
-- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock Food
Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or
theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
-- George Santayana When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst Food The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
-- Niels Bohr Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
-- Finley Peter Dunne Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy Food
The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger Food Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too
conservative.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create
it herself.
- Anais Nin Food
"Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up
between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever.
-- Virginia Woolf "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Food Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw Food
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.
-- It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) Tear open packet, unfold and use.
-- Directions on moist towelette package Food One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to
realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and
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A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. "Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that.
-- Shakespeare, William "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) Food A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their
graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort.
-- Sydney Smith They were doing a full back shot of me in a swimsuit and I thought, Oh my God, I have to be so
brave. See, every woman hates herself from behind.
-- Cindy Crawford, supermodel Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde Food
The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Food "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca Food
"I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in
charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
-- Hen "Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) Food There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and
discipline.
-- Michel de Montaigne "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt Food
