"I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
-- Elbert Hubbard "A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
imagination.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Health The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-- ee cummings Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire Health
Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Health Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Health
Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
- H. G. Wells Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard "Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected..." (Chuck Jones) Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) Health Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain "If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker
room is the temple where they worship arrested development.
-- Russell Baker Health
There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one
of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
-- George Bernard Shaw "I put on an act sometimes, and people think I'm insensitive. Really, it's like a kind of armor because I'm too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I' Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown "I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) Health "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde Health
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 If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your
thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be.
-- Richard Mitchell, from Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) Health Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
-- Mother Teresa The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde Health
Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the
really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
-- Mark Twain To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana Health Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier. --H.L. Mencken "Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) "I'll endorse with my name any of the following; clothing AC-DC, cigarettes, small tapes, sound equipment, ROCK N' ROLL RECORDS, anything, film, and film equipment, Food, Helium, Whips, MONEY!!" (And Health
My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
bathroom in the middle of it.
-- Nick Mirov Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-- Carl Gustav Jung To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch Health There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house
as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
-- Homer, Odyssey, ninth century Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh Health
This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-- Anonymous "Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken Health Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
-- Samuel Johnson It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman Health
Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
automobile.
-- Billy Sunday The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Health How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln Health
The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
-- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent
crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry
inspe Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another
to the world.
-- Antonio Machado "The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) Health I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf Health
"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) If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how
to make it interesting.
-- Milton Berle, when called to the microphone at the 2nd Annual Comedians Hal Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken Health Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.
-- King George V 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 Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? Health
