"If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves
beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
-- Al Rogers, Global SchoolHouse Netw Vote early and vote often.
- Al Capone Physicians and Clinics "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Physicians and Clinics
"Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) "We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department
store and he asked for my autograph.
-- Shirley Temple Black "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous Physicians and Clinics All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein "The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger Physicians and Clinics
"Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) 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 The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to
us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
-- Jeff Raskin When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims
of intact ones.
-- Peter DeVries Physicians and Clinics "Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf Physicians and Clinics
There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem
mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's
chara An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
-- Robert A. Humphrey Physicians and Clinics "We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Physicians and Clinics
It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
-- Vladimir Nabokov The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating
influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the
commun Physicians and Clinics Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Physicians and Clinics
The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you
get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a
Physicians and Clinics "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
-- Ken Dodd The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill Physicians and Clinics
Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn 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 "Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to t This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
-- St. Francis of Assisi Physicians and Clinics "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Goodbye, Everybody!
-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln Physicians and Clinics
Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find
out how to do it.
-- Theodore Roosevelt And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous Physicians and Clinics "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) Physicians and Clinics
blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your
thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be.
-- Richard Mitchell, from The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too.
When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing
extraordinary In the blithe days of honeymoon,
With Kate's allurements smitten,
I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon,
And call'd her dearest kitten.
But now my kitten's grown a cat,
And cross like other wives.
Physicians and Clinics I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde Physicians and Clinics
"Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours." (Dale There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
-- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 "Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne Physicians and Clinics Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph Physicians and Clinics
For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good
results: drag behind car through puddles, blow-dry on roofrack.
-- Laundry instructions on a shirt The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Guide to understanding a net.addict's day:
Slow day: didn't have much to do, so spent three hours on usenet.
Busy day: managed to work in three hours of usenet.
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-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm Physicians and Clinics