"I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage
he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it.
-- Anon. Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
happen to him.
-- John Barrymore - last words A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
-- Mae West Health Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain Health
If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and
tomorrow aint as bad as it seems.
-- Billy Joel There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
-- Anonymous How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils Health Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed.
They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position.
-- John Hogan, Commonwealth Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas Health
"The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker
room is the temple where they worship arrested development.
-- Russell Baker Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson Health There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be
said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot
successfully Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY Health
Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the
opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
-- Oscar W I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like
a black mistake.
-- D. H. Lawrence Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
-- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA Health That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire Health
Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger,
as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is
when you r We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters "I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower."
"Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!"
-- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
-- Vladimir Nabokov Health "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Health
We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
-- Albert Einstein Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Health "I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland Health
"I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz "If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Health Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the
purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
-- Anatole France The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein Health
Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back Just buy a box of popcorn and a Coca-Cola and sit back and watch.
-- James Carville, Clinton advisor, offering advice for Democrats on the term-limits vote in the
House "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Health "The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the
table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the
disg Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem Health
At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words
that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
-- Alexander Pope Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton Health The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown "I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler Health
Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-
inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least
expect i America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait "Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi Health The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or
theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
-- George Santayana We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What
do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came
back with ano Health
The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same
joke and still feel lonely.
-- T. S. Eliot The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy Health I have a daughter who goes to SMU. She could've gone to UCLA here in California, but it's one
more letter she'd have to remember.
-- Shecky Greene We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
-- Woodrow Wyatt In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost Health
