"Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and
inex Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the
commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete
answer. In fact, women's total ins Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall Health "No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." (Henry B. Adams) "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) Health
Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt "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) 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 The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live Health "If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) We look forward to the time when the power to love of will replace the love of power. Then will our
world know the blessings of peace.
-- William Gladstone "Those who feel certainty are stupid and those with any imagination or understanding are filled with doubt and indecision." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Health
People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only
make $500,000.
-- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door
and just visit now and then.
-- Katharine Hepburn "It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) Health Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with
the powerful, not to be neutral.
-- Paulo Freire We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your
way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition -- plowing straight ahead, come what
may A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken Health
"The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Steven Wright Health Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan Health
I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "I'll endorse with my name any of the following; clothing AC-DC, cigarettes, small tapes, sound equipment, ROCK N' ROLL RECORDS, anything, film, and film equipment, Food, Helium, Whips, MONEY!!" (And "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper Health "For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol Health
It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
- Bill Hirst A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb Health Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier. --H.L. Mencken Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
--Loesje When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life
of another.
-- Helen Keller Health
A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they
are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
-- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man "To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was
60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is.
-- Ellen DeGeneres Health An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for
love is measured by fullness, not by reception.
-- Harold Loukes The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) Health
Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not
mean his maker, but himself.
-- Dean Inge Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
-- Albert Einstein Health I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Indeed, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all.
-- Ogden Nash, Song of the Open Road, 1945 "I'll endorse with my name any of the following; clothing AC-DC, cigarettes, small tapes, sound equipment, ROCK N' ROLL RECORDS, anything, film, and film equipment, Food, Helium, Whips, MONEY!!" (And If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken Health
"When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." (Friedrich Wilhelm Ni The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa "Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. Health "I think people resist freedom because they're afraid of the unknown. But it's ironic....That unknown was once very well known. It's where are souls belong....The only solution is to confront them--co You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller "It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe Health
"I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley Marriage is a rest period between romances. It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy
the waking hours much more.
-- Woody Allen Health Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright Health
Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) "Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Health Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of
suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room.
-- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni "I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs
long enough."
-- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates Health
