Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) 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 To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein Health Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What
do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came
back with ano Health
Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree
to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full
of grac "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Health "Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day." (Ali bin One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: "Give little, give seldom, and above all,
give grudgingly." Otherwise, what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of
sexual Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
ages as much as 20 years.
-- Anonymous Health
If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
- Buckminster I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
-- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight Health No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers Health
Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The
gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
-- Thomas Arnold Bennet If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would
be able to endure it.
-- Schopenhauer "Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice Health "I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald Health
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 It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the
influences under which he incurred the disorder... It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the
physician The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes
in search of martyrdom is that the former expresses his idea most fully in death while the latter
really 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 Health Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham 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 Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder Health
"A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." (Fred Allen) Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt Health In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all
the time. That would be hypocrisy.
-- Oscar Wilde When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you
don't know. He knows now that he doesn't know. Last year, he didn't know that.
-- Bill Parcels, New Engla Health
"Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
-- Ken Dodd "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) Health "Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) Health
Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
- H. G. Wells Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would
be able to endure it.
-- Schopenhauer Health The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness
are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser
tha Health
Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
-- George Jean Nathan "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future
generations There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) Health In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. Health
Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo The soul is healed by being with children.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevski In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson Health The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
-- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Indeed, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all.
-- Ogden Nash, Song of the Open Road, 1945 Health
Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry "People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult." (Anne Goodbye, Everybody!
-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. Health There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous "Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) Health
