"Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its
prime function of looking forward.
-- Margaret Fairless Barber We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us.
-- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw Health Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
-- Maya Angelou Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White Health
However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan "Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) 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 Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-
inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least
expect i "Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) Health Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Health
My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put
over my kitchen table.
-- Rodney Dangerfield There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Health blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle Health
Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch "Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only
make $500,000.
-- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 Tear open packet, unfold and use.
-- Directions on moist towelette package Health A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) Health
It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some
simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion.
-- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes
your wife.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Health Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
-- Albert Einstein "Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to t Health
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-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
-- Herbert Westren Turnbull If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
-- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?
-- Michael Meissner Health Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review Health
I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would
be doing if he were alive today?
1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War.
2) Advising the President.
3) D Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll Health The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
it.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. "Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the Health
I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.
-- Mark Twain Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
-- George Saunders - last words "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. Health He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Health
"The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork
picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
-- Tom Stoppard "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
-- Ambrose Bierce 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 Health We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not
know what to create.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov "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 Health
This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Health Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw "It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does
not change his mind.
-- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks Health
"How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other
friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things:
and in that In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that
no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
-- Paul Dirac Health A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.
-- King George V Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. Health
