A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The
rest is trust.
-- Nanette Newman, British actress Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to
benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.
-- Ralph Mars When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with
the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover,
The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
-- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle Weight Lifting "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams Weight Lifting
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 Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) 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 All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein Weight Lifting "In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton Weight Lifting
I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady
in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me.
-- Dick Martin "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not
allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating,
stealing, If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein Weight Lifting "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) Weight Lifting
One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby
see only a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney and continue on their way.
-- Vincent Van Gogh "The bite of conscience, like the bite of a dog into a stone, is a stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II Weight Lifting "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
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-- H. L. Mencken Weight Lifting
Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
day into your answers.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery Weight Lifting You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills "A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell Weight Lifting
An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy
contests, but they keep the crowd's attention.
-- Anonymous "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do
its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.
-- "I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol Weight Lifting Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
-- J. Heller A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb Weight Lifting
A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes I tried a mail order bride, once, but she was damaged in the mail, and I had to return the unused part for my full refund. The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
-- Oscar Wilde "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) Weight Lifting Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin 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 Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
-- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers Weight Lifting
"When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche "If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you t "Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman
is one who can find such a man.
-- Lana Turner Weight Lifting Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc
jockey is not allowed to talk.
-- Fran Lebowitz "These are days you'll remember." If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony,
remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.
-- Christine Todd, NJ Governor, Whea Weight Lifting
Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George bernard Shaw Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Weight Lifting Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus Weight Lifting
A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) "To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung Weight Lifting Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action
of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Weight Lifting
We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would not live forever, because
we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live
forever, "These are days you'll remember." If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony,
remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.
-- Christine Todd, NJ Governor, Whea "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) Weight Lifting Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health,
knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
-- Roger Babson Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert 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 Weight Lifting
