When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already
were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston All television is children's television.
-- Richard P. Adler Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns 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 To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
-- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to
finish without knowing what you have written.
-- Jean Jacques Rousseau The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr Health
More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to
get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
-- Billie Holliday "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) "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) Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw Health The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Health
Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Boies Penrose, 1931 Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
-- Oscar Wilde, dying words Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 Health "Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein Health
For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton Health I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.
-- Barbara Bush, first lady, 1989 I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way
of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Health
Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature
machine gun.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There
are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's
reall It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower Health The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
- Lucille S. Harper I do not see the EEC as a great love affair. It is more like nine desperate middle-ages couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope. -- Tynan Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins Health
A White House well filled, a little peanut field well tilled, and a wife who will go to the Bronx are
great riches.
-- Poor Jimmy's Almanac Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb "Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any compliment and limit, but only o As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton Health 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 Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous Health
Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West "Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai blah "You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling Health A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol Health
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? Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Health If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all
the time. That would be hypocrisy.
-- Oscar Wilde Health
Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and
joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not
as 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 "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban Health It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw Spinster: A bachelor's wife. The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is
that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one.
-- Anonymous Health
Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
-- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to
help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to
comfort us along The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy
together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back
on at Health Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz "I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so Amer Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce Health
I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) 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 "For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) Health Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde Health
