"There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves Health Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
-- George Clemenceau Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe Health
A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
-- Anonymous There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers Health The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their
powers as a State depend.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan Health
Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein "I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet
not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
-- François de La Rouch This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker Health We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person
perfectly.
-- Anonymous Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning "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 Health
There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and
inex "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley "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-) Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz Health If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
-- Libbie Fudim Health
"He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) 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 This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
happen to him.
-- John Barrymore - last words "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Health The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.
- Henry Kissinger Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor Health
If you never want to see a man again, say, "I love you, I want to marry you, I want to have children..." - they leave skid marks. -- Rita Rudner He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "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 It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed.
They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position.
-- John Hogan, Commonwealth We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as
possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday Health
"Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through
self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
-- Helen Keller Health Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous "It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) Health
If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
-- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
-- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Health Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) Health
I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.
-- Wayne Gretzky "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw Health The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) Health
But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how
many can get through to you.
-- Mortimer J. Adler "A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer Health Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately
becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in
those tiny toil I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) Health
Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass
produced with unskilled labor.
-- Wernher von Braun A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde Health "Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth I worship the quicksand he walks in.
- Art Buchwald Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude Health
