Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each
other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's
nerves Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz Health I worship the quicksand he walks in.
- Art Buchwald In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde Health
My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood "The feminists used to say that chivalry and ladyhood were ways of keeping women down and preventing them from standing toe to toe with the guys. Now you've got a lot of women saying that if a guy is In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz >From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some
day I intend reading it.
-- Groucho Marx Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein Health The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any
antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
-- Alfred Hitchcock "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Health
Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this
is not difficult.
-- Charlotte Whitton "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) Health There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be
said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot
successfully Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
-- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. Health
Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
-- Alphonse Allais Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers "I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs
long enough."
-- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates "Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra) Health The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another
to the world.
-- Antonio Machado The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute
for life.
-- Andrew Brown Health
Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy Work is a four-letter word.
-- The Smiths (Morrissey) "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo Health If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
bureaucracy won't.
-- Hyman Rickover 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 There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be
paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's
life Health
"When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does
not change his mind.
-- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
-- Henry James Health I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
wastes to Third Wo A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Health
I didn't accept it. I received it.
-- Richard Allen, National Security Advisor to President Reagan, explaining the $1000 in cash and
two watches he was given by two Japanese journalists after he hel "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and
therefore congenial to it.
-- G. K. Chesterton Health If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.
-- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman Health
A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams They were doing a full back shot of me in a swimsuit and I thought, Oh my God, I have to be so
brave. See, every woman hates herself from behind.
-- Cindy Crawford, supermodel I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like
a black mistake.
-- D. H. Lawrence An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy
contests, but they keep the crowd's attention.
-- Anonymous Health Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise "Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler Health
"Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
-- Booker T. Washington "It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. Health For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely
unnatural condition.
-- Robert Briffault Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden Health
Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you
will become a philosopher.
-- Socrates America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Louis Berlioz Health I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would
be doing if he were alive today?
1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War.
2) Advising the President.
3) D A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken Health
Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt "I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand "In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat." (Robert Byrne) Health "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde Health
