Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle
enough of them.
-- Flannery O'Connor "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) My other wife is beautiful. Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer Health "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) 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 "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) Health
"When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler Health "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous Health
'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give. -- Cass Daley Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin 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 "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) Health "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) "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) A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth Health
Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford 'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) Health Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you
a hundre "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Health
Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
-- Albert Einstein "There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered." (Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom) The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol Health "Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that Health
Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.
-- King George V "Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but
as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!"
-- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown Health What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler blah blah blah blah blah "This is the way the world ends: not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot) _end]
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"Hello Kitty is an icon that doesn't stand for a A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II Health
A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take
her off his hands.
-- Sacha Guitry For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely
unnatural condition.
-- Robert Briffault Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims
of intact ones.
-- Peter DeVries To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
-- Francis Crawford Health Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-- Samuel Butler Health
I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein Health I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your
way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition -- plowing straight ahead, come what
may Health
"... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically!
-- Steven Wright "Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford Health Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Health
Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-- Irwin Corey There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good
marriage
-- Martin Luther All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
-- Anonymous Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) Health There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
-- Seen on a t-shirt Health
Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
-- Oliver Herford When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche "Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it Health The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth
shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.
-- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein Health
