"The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly Health What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
-- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln Health
No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. "Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) 'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde Health Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature
machine gun.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Health
If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr "I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear ... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived." (Rabbi H A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes Health >From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud "The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus Health
"If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference
between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I
don't know and Health "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara Health
I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the
marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.
-- Bette Davis "Think off-center." (George Carlin) If you never want to see a man again, say, "I love you, I want to marry you, I want to have children..." - they leave skid marks. -- Rita Rudner Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
-- Robert Browning Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Health The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) Silence is argument carried out by other means.
- ErnestoCheGuevara Health
"Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
-- Ralph Marston Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen Health There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
-- Neils Bohr I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.
-- David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes. The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson Health
"People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was
doing spying.
-- Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets for spying, in an i "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
-- Henry James "The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi Health A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
-- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little
plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.
-- Ha Health
The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) "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) "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne Health Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) Health
Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three
children and no theories.
-- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more
experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat
soiled or torn? "Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that
M&Ms really do melt in your hand...
-- Peter Oakley 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 Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi "Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) Health
Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch 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 Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) Health I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me. -- Dick Martin "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol Health
To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it;
whenever you're right, shut up.
-- Ogden Nash God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if
he finds her.
-- Benjamin Tillett "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Health A White House well filled, a little peanut field well tilled, and a wife who will go to the Bronx are
great riches.
-- Poor Jimmy's Almanac I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning Health
