Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas
doctors rob you and kill you too.
-- Anton Chekhov Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other
friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things:
and in that Kannus Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted.
-- Anonymous "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin Kannus
The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door
and just visit now and then.
-- Katharine Hepburn "I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos--especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom ... Rather than starting inside, I start ou Kannus Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
-- Roger Babson Kannus
'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn "Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) Kannus In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
-- Helen Rowland It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by
the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off!
-- Douglas Jerold, 1858 We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa Kannus
I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
- Cicero Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
--Loesje We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H.L. Mencken All television is children's television.
-- Richard P. Adler Kannus The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause
we believe to be just.
-- Abraham Lincoln If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
one.
-- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up
between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever.
-- Virginia Woolf Kannus
Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-- Groucho Marx I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
it.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Kannus The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday
afternoon.
-- Susan Ertz Kannus
The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the
false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
-- Salvador Dali The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada Kannus You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of
responsibility at the other.
-- Ronald Reagan, Saturday Evening Post, 1965 A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill Kannus
"The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." (Albert Camus) "It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell "To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz Kannus Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber Kannus
What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
toys?
-- Douglas Coupland Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and
tomorrow aint as bad as it seems.
-- Billy Joel Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
-- Robert Browning Kannus "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn 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 Kannus
If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) Kannus "I put on an act sometimes, and people think I'm insensitive. Really, it's like a kind of armor because I'm too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I' To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation.
-- Latin Proverb Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams Kannus
Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld Kannus A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing.
-- George Benard Shaw Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
-- Oscar Wilde Kannus
The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take
her off his hands.
-- Sacha Guitry My other wife is beautiful. "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) Kannus "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "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 most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Kannus
