In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to
contact us.
-- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes Health Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. When you're away, I'm restless, lonely
Wretched, bored, dejected; only
here's the rub, my darling dear,
I feel the same when you are here.
-- Samuel Hoffenstein "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Health
I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from
both sides.
-- Margaret Thatcher Jake liked his women the way he liked his kiwi fruit: sweet yet tart, firm-fleshed yet yielding to the
touch, and covered with short brown fuzzy hair.
-- Jonathan S. Haas The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the
first half.
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
ages as much as 20 years.
-- Anonymous Health My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no
character.
-- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz Health
I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to
me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
-- Lucille Ball Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst "Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) Health To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept
me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't
everythin A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and
illiterate sport fishermen.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Health
I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement
speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have
th Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
- George Washington Carver A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous "'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, Through the Looking Glass) Health "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) Health
"Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers Health Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier Health
We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
coattails.
-- Clarence Darrow "Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) Health At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner Health
We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution,
of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always
be Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on
a date.
-- Caroline Rhea The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject,
when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron
scumbags dev Health A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
- George Washington Carver Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window.
You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house.
-- Jean Ke Health
Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler Health Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop Health
In the blithe days of honeymoon,
With Kate's allurements smitten,
I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon,
And call'd her dearest kitten.
But now my kitten's grown a cat,
And cross like other wives.
It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would
be able to endure it.
-- Schopenhauer Health Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anonymous I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) Health
"Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo Health It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) Health
He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- W. Somerset Maugham It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the
time by watching the second hand of a clock.
-- Ben Hecht Health "Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-- Bill Stern Health
