The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
-- Gloria Leonard May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm
upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in
the palm In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
-- Christopher Morley "'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, Through the Looking Glass) Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
-- John Adams, dying words Health Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
-- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act i. Sc. 1. Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up
our minds to walk boldly through them.
-- Orison Swett Marden Health
Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus "Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to
substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
-- Iris Murdoch Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood Health "Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) Health
"The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
-- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) Health The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. Health
As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills ... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more
aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since
"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 Health The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
pure ignorance?
-- Holbrook Jackson "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 Health
It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim
to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire.
-- Gen. George It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
-- Henry James Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens Health The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
chastisement.
-- Ernest Dimnet 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
I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, "I'd like some fries." The girl at the counter said,
"Would you like some fries with that?"
-- Jay Leno Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
what you are getting.
-- Anonymous The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Health You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 Health
"Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) "We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Not to anticipate is already to moan.
-- Leonardo da Vinci There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one
of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
-- George Bernard Shaw We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow Health The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan Man is a natural polygamist. He always has one woman leading him by the nose and another
hanging on to his coattails.
-- H. L. Mencken Health
"What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those
little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian Health It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker "When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy Health
We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and
cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
-- Tom Robbins I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous Health Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz 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 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 Health
If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who,
doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a
machi When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant Health For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of
pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.
-- Lyster A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia Health
The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
-- Kenneth H. Blanchard "Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) Health Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute
for life.
-- Andrew Brown The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa Health
