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-- Oliver Herford 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 We have only one person to blame, and that's each other.
-- Barry Beck, New York Ranger, on who started a fight furing a hockey game Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy Health 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 I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those
little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
coattails.
-- Clarence Darrow Health
Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject,
when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron
scumbags dev "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Health Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. -- Socrates Health
The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they
study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.
-- Gerald Early, writer, baseball do Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley Health Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) Health
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is
when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.
-- Marcel Achard 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 Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton Health Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.
-- R. Scott Richards The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort Health
If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways
to be, you know that there are...
-- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician "The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) "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 Health All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above
weakness Health
This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) "A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." (Fred Allen) Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway Health No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
-- Ken Dodd Health
Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant "In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat." (Robert Byrne) Health Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw Health
If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-- Samuel Butler "In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." (Eric Hoffer) If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti "The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard Health "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a
brand new ending.
-- Anonymous Health
I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson "The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz Health The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
-- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
- Buckminster Health
The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 Health Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer Health
Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
-- Seen on a t-shirt Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is
always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.
-- Friedrich Nietzsch Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting Health "If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
-- Erica Jong For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate,
the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
-- Rainer Maria Ril Health
