"There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the
time by watching the second hand of a clock.
-- Ben Hecht There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty Health There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you
yourself have altered.
-- Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.
-- R. Scott Richards Health
Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) blah blah blah blah blah "This is the way the world ends: not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot) _end]
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"Hello Kitty is an icon that doesn't stand for a "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) Health Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large
organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.
-- Dave Barry One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the
outward behavior.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Health
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-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never
were, and ask why not?
-- Robert Francis Kennedy If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-- Abraham Lincoln "To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning
there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have
people all Health I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Health
It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
-- Libbie Fudim "Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas Health "I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) "You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) Health
"College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
freedom.
-- Albert Einstein Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Health "An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid." (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th earl of) He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan Health
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi 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 The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. Golf is a good walk spoiled.
-- Mark Twain "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Health Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
the workmanship.
-- John Renmerde Health
"If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 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 "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) All television is children's television.
-- Richard P. Adler "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) Health
"The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) How could they tell?
-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
-- Roger Simon To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
-- Francis Crawford 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 "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Health
Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. Health Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to
criticize others.
-- H. Jackson Brown Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it.
-- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to
heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need
more supervision.
-- Lynn Health
Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more
experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat
soiled or torn? Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
- James Stephens You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Health "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington 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 Health
The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) "If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous Health Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
-- Carl Zwanzig 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 Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn
themselves to a life of vinegar.
-- Countess of Blessington Health
