"And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to "Whether it is a black cat or a white cat, as long as it can catch the rat, it is a good cat." (Deng Xiao Ping) Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre 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 You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's
arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
-- Jonathan Carroll, Outside Health Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it.
-- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 Health
Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
happen to him.
-- John Barrymore - last words Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford Health "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Health
A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
-- Ralph Marston "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark
in one another.
-- Kenny Ausubel Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. Health "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) "Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) "Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) Health
I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we
can do... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes.
-- Cybi The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III Health My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley 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 If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I Health
A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous Health 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 "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde Health
Women's liberationists spread the word that...the only peaceful family is one in which either the
wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous.
-- R. Emmett Tyell, The Liberal Crack-Up, 1984 "We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning
there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have
people all Health Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein "Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.
-- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 Health
I do not see the EEC as a great love affair. It is more like nine desperate middle-ages couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope. -- Tynan Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
history.
-- George Bernard Shaw Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese Health Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on
tormenting the generations to come.
-- Montesquieu I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't
certain we knew better.
-- George Bird Evans 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 Health
blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) "God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) Health The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind
and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the
coachin Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon Health
I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach "Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius Health To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw "That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, Health
An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
-- Oscar Wilde, dying words To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
-- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
-- Hermione Gingold Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle Health Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
-- Lord Dewar "Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em." (William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, II:5) Health
Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery Health Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde 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 "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) Health
