Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
-- Finley Peter Dunne The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx Health UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. Health
"College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) "You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop
questioning.
-- Albert Einstein There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
imagination.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb Health The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore
exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.
-- Slavoj Zizek Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
-- B.F. Skinner I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White Health
Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) We are the echo of the future.
-- W. S. Merwin Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem Health A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Health
The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy
together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back
on at 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 He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake "I think people resist freedom because they're afraid of the unknown. But it's ironic....That unknown was once very well known. It's where are souls belong....The only solution is to confront them--co "Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) Health "I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear ... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived." (Rabbi H Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Health
The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
-- Bhagava Gita If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and
illiterate sport fishermen.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Health A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton "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 You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller Health
"You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy Health We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
-- Woodrow Wyatt An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning Health
And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples'
decisions for them?
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All "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 As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 "The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl could want in her life, except for good
taste in men!
-- Wedding Toast Health
When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again.
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford Health Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a
thing to be acheived.
-- William Jennings Bryant The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
-- Colin Wilson A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb Health
Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature
machine gun.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous Health Dear Mrs, Mr, Miss, or Mr and Mrs Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action. -- C I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere Health
Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
happen to him.
-- John Barrymore - last words The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does
come, we no longer exist.
-- Epicurus The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this
is true.
-- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion "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 Health I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, "I'd like some fries." The girl at the counter said,
"Would you like some fries with that?"
-- Jay Leno Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose
-- Jim Elliott Health
It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would
have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I
didn' A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There
are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's
reall "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that.
-- Shakespeare, William Health A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. Health
