"I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton Health No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
-- Anthony Burgess Health
Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from
both sides.
-- Margaret Thatcher "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in
accordance with the dictates of reason.
-- Oscar Wilde "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 Health The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
-- Hoshang N. Akhtar A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who
marries a man to reform him.
-- Elbert Hubbard Health
"It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) "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 Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate,
the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
-- Rainer Maria Ril Health
"I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison Health When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon "Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) Health
The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have
to shave twice a day.
-- Adlai Stevenson Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
-- Chekhov If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz Health Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes "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) Health
"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) The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly Health "Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) "Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard)." (Edgar R. Fiedler) A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their
graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort.
-- Sydney Smith Health
The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue.
-- Anonymous It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen Health "The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) "These are days you'll remember." If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony,
remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.
-- Christine Todd, NJ Governor, Whea "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) Health
The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because
generally they are the same people.
-- G. K. Chesterton I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
-- Christopher Morley Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst Health "'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) In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
-- Helen Rowland This compact disc is made from analog masters recorded without noise reduction. Half the tracks,
in fact, were recorded in a dismal, cheap basement eight-track studio with puddles of water on
the fl Health
A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner Honor lies in honest toil.
-- Grover Cleveland "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Health Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf "A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) Health
He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose
-- Jim Elliott Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery "We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton Health Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. Health
When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.
- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan Health "Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
the workmanship.
-- John Renmerde People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba Health
