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 "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.
-- Londo Molari "The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) Health If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
-- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) 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 Health
"One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet
not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
-- François de La Rouch "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Health There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house
as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
-- Homer, Odyssey, ninth century Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) Health
"I should reproach him for not giving us enough evidence." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970, what he would say to God if they 'met') Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to
vote for Colonel Sanders.
-- Bob Inglis, 1995 I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
and bought jewelry.
-- Rita Rudner The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house
as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
-- Homer, Odyssey, ninth century Health "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) 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 "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) Health
I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called
marriage.
-- James Holt McGavran "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton Health "Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of
your life.
-- Abbie M. Dale An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr Health
Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie Health As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action
of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
-- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting
married Health
My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in
bed with her.
-- Lenny Bruce The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anonymous Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY Health Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker 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 Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw Health
Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle
enough of them.
-- Flannery O'Connor The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to
contact us.
-- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) Health If you never want to see a man again, say, "I love you, I want to marry you, I want to have children..." - they leave skid marks. -- Rita Rudner English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. "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, Alice in Wonderland Health
"To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins "God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) Health "I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling Health
The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous Health Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine Health
Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( Health Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does
not change his mind.
-- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
what you are getting.
-- Anonymous Health
I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa "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 All you need is love.
-- The Beatles, song title The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST Health It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman Health
