To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have
had any experience with them.
-- H. L. Mencken "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford Health "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle Health
When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life
of another.
-- Helen Keller I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.
-- Barbara Bush, first lady, 1989 She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler "Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) Health Establishing yourself, furnishing a house, building up a comfortable existence, and having that menace hanging over your head all the time - no, I prefer to live in hotels, cafés, just passing through Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot Health
You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill "My daughter has never forgiven me. for what, I don't know, because for years, she won't speak to me. She blackens my name in the press and makes me think abortion is an excellent idea." (Klaus Kinsk The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy
the waking hours much more.
-- Woody Allen "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) Health Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence "I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats." (Woody Allen, in regard to the KKK) With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln Health
A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who
marries a man to reform him.
-- Elbert Hubbard A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill 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 God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte Health Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson Health
It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are
difficult.
-- Lucius Anneaus Seneca 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 A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) Health I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN 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 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 Health
The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have
to shave twice a day.
-- Adlai Stevenson The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) Health A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler Health
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 He who laughs, lasts.
-- Mary Pettibone Poole "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 .. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over
myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long
per That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the
lessons that history has to teach.
-- Aldous Huxley Health The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers Health
"Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." (Dylan Thomas) Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle Health They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
-- Anonymous Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not
impress the neighbors as being very much.
-- Zora Neale Hurston Health
May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) "I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. Health We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were
reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing,
and "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
neighborhood.
-- Maya Angelou Health
We look forward to the time when the power to love of will replace the love of power. Then will our
world know the blessings of peace.
-- William Gladstone Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large
organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.
-- Dave Barry Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or
failure has been dependent on the one he used most.
-- George R. Kirkpatrick Health If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
-- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau Health
Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley
Temple could do it at the age of four.
-- Katharine Hepburn Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt Health Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Sřren Kierkegaard Health
