"Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the
next meal would come from.
-- Peter F. Drucker "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) Health Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy Go away...I'm alright.
-- H. G. Wells, dying words Health
People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark
in one another.
-- Kenny Ausubel "Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau Health The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again.
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper Health
"A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous 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 A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference
between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I
don't know and I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone Health We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
-- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) Health
Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Anonymous "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken 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 Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as
saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball.
-- Deborah Tan Health "Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken Health
The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison "You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises,
promotions, and other signs of appreciation.
-- Anonymous A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your
girdle when your hips stick.
-- Ogden Nash Health "I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too
conservative.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman Health
No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in
charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
-- Hen The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) We can say 'Peace on Earth,' we can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have
not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us, then it will not be.
-- Betty Shabazz Health When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius "I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Health
Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
-- Rita Rudner Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. Just
flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around Health All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
definition, is unassailable.
-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 Health
We must become the change we want to see.
-- Gandhi The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) "You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Health The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker "Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) Health
I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem 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 Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Boies Penrose, 1931 Health "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. Health
He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
-- Terry Cohen You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's
arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
-- Jonathan Carroll, Outside Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you
together, but do so with all your heart.
-- Marcus Aurelius Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce Health Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as
saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball.
-- Deborah Tan The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
-- Albert Einstein I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh Health
"Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle "All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows
how to make us disobedient.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Health "Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation." (Larry Flynt) In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch Health
