I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. 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 "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt Health The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
- George Bernard Shaw I didn't accept it. I received it.
-- Richard Allen, National Security Advisor to President Reagan, explaining the $1000 in cash and
two watches he was given by two Japanese journalists after he hel 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 Health
"Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford Health He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's
age.
-- Modern Maturity Health
"Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) "Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student Health The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow Health
"To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) "Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain Health "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. "We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses Health
"In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh Health When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt Health
He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
-- Terry Cohen Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand "We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of
fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality
and Health Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa Health
"Drugs have done a lot of good. A lot of good songs have been written. 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. 'Dark Side of the Moon?' 100 dead kids. At least that many were conceived by people listening Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately
becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in
those tiny toil The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
ethical infants.
-- General Omar Bradley The child is the father of the man.
-- William Wordsworth "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Health "Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
-- Albert Einstein The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa Health
I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I
believed in liberals...
-- G. K. Chesterton I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
-- Will Rogers Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink 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 Health We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health,
knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
-- Roger Babson Health
I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
-- Francois-Auguste Rodin, when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous
and dreadful.
-- Samuel Johnson Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances
continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the
distance "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde Health A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a
minute, it's longer than any hour. That is relativity.
-- Albert Einstein Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) Health
Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing
matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.
-- Amy Bloom University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick Health Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. "If I were still a critic, I would loathe knowing the person I was writing about. There's enough of an incestuous relationship between subject and writer." (Manny Farber, American film theorist) "I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) Health
"I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.
-- Barbara Bush, first lady, 1989 The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.
-- Sigmund Freud 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 In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott Health We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
-- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking
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