The nourishment is palatable.
-- Millard Fillmore, dying words Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) Health Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork
picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
-- Tom Stoppard Goodbye, Everybody!
-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley Health
People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries "Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) Health Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
- Robert Orben The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.
-- Mark Twain Health
The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
- unknown If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
-- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they
can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and
stupid from The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown Health Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and
quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that
remains fa This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp Health
Women's liberationists spread the word that...the only peaceful family is one in which either the
wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous.
-- R. Emmett Tyell, The Liberal Crack-Up, 1984 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. 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 "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning Health "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest Health
"Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) 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 Health Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
-- George Saunders - last words Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 Health
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 When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his
cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that
Uncl I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber "The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only th When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
legislators.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Health Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Borge To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer Health
My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. The telephone company is urging people to *please* not use the telephone unless it is absolutely
necessary in order to keep the lines open for emergency personnel. We'll be right back after this
bre The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their
graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort.
-- Sydney Smith Health All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde Health
Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils Health We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy "If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." (Albert Einstein) Health
All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
-- Anonymous "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
neighborhood.
-- Maya Angelou "I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
-- Gloria Leonard Health Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little
plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.
-- Ha Health
Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland "Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine Health Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.
-- Mark Twain "We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Health
Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
-- Clarence Darrow If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of
something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than
cocaine.
Health I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
-- Robert A. Humphrey Health
