I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 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) There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Health You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Health
Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree
to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full
of grac He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're
the boss."
-- Anonymous "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) "When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France Health "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find
that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our
pain We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous Health
Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the
second, "For my best friend."
-- Anonymous The nourishment is palatable.
-- Millard Fillmore, dying words "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we
were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
-- John Stuart Mill Health Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." (George Bernar Health
If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that.
-- Shakespeare, William You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to
be a coincidence.
-- Jeremy S. Anderson Health The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. Health
The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the
consequences.
-- Isadora Duncan English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler Health "Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to
do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did.
-- Anonymous We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop Health
blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) "The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only th "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create
it herself.
- Anais Nin Health The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind
woman.
-- S. T. Coleridge "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
legislators.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Health
Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
-- Scott Adams The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper "Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) Health I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the
table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the
disg Health
Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. Health Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler 2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time.
-- inside of a Pepsi cap Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
neighborhood.
-- Maya Angelou Health
"There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes
in search of martyrdom is that the former expresses his idea most fully in death while the latter
really "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells Health "Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb Health
"People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
-- Pablo Picasso "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) Health If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to
passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are . . .
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If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
-- Scott Adams "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) Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch "Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their
powers as a State depend.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Health Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
-- Seen on a t-shirt I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Health
