"Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage,
he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it.
-- Helen Roland 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 If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin Health Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong
and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny
is but th Health
Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 Health Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen "An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid." (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th earl of) "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) Health
There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to
learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
-- Michel de Montaigne Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries Health Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov "For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde Health
This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker Man and wife make one fool. A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing.
-- George Benard Shaw "Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 Health What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crow Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson Health
The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we
can do... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes.
-- Cybi Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the
second, "For my best friend."
-- Anonymous Health To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx 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 Health
The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
bad ones.
-- W. Somerset Maugham 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 "The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan Health Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above
weakness I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Health
Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things!
-- Tom Lehrer The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller Health He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that "I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) Marriage is a rest period between romances. Health
"The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi We have only one person to blame, and that's each other.
-- Barry Beck, New York Ranger, on who started a fight furing a hockey game Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard Health If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde Health
"Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being
brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
-- Cynthia H To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert "Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) Health "It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning Health
Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) Health There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's
age.
-- Modern Maturity "It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck "We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li Health
You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller He who laughs, lasts.
-- Mary Pettibone Poole "If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) Health When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais Health
