It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some
simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion.
-- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides Health A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more
they possess.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) Health
It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito "It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W Health My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. "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) Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? Health
The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's
being off the network.
-- Guy Almes A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson "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 Health Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things!
-- Tom Lehrer I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings "For others do I wait ... for higher ones, stronger ones, more triumphant ones, merrier ones, for such as are built squarely in body and soul: laughing lions must come." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Health
Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead 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 Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard Health A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller Go away...I'm alright.
-- H. G. Wells, dying words Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman Health
Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
a fortune Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese Health Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one
should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do
not allow The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard Health
The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca Health The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for
themselves.
-- F. Emerson Andrews Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
-- Rory Bremner Health
Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
-- Robert Browning I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, "I'd like some fries." The girl at the counter said,
"Would you like some fries with that?"
-- Jay Leno Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy Health Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
-- Polish proverb A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson Health
Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
-- Albert Einstein Health There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain Health
If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man
will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
-- Henry Ford I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) Health If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
-- Oscar Wilde Health
Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
-- Emiliano Zapata Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" Health Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
- H. G. Wells "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Health
Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind
woman.
-- S. T. Coleridge Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and
hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in
Heaven.
-- P. J Health It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf Health
