"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) "The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) Health I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including:
* Both of your socks should always be the same color
* Or they should at least both be fairly dark
-- Dave Barry "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) How could they tell?
-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died Health
"The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature
intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times
worse tha Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when
people laugh.
-- George Bernard Shaw A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning >From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some
day I intend reading it.
-- Groucho Marx Health "Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) Health
Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model.
Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush...
-- Dawn French The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate,
the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
-- Rainer Maria Ril 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 Health With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy Health
My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
-- Sioux Indian Prayer Health I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen 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 "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) Health
Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Health "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-- Ambrose Bierce My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no
character.
-- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig Health
Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw "To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks Health Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in
opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
-- Sydney Smith A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are.
-- Gore Vidal The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola Health
Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of
humor is just common sense, dancing.
-- Clive James "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his
life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.
-- Francois Cavanna Health "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-- Bill Stern 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 . . .
grand Health
"I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) 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 "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) Health A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson "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) We have only one person to blame, and that's each other.
-- Barry Beck, New York Ranger, on who started a fight furing a hockey game Health
"A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In
this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
-- Marianne Williamson Silence is argument carried out by other means.
- ErnestoCheGuevara If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
-- Al Bernstein A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes Health Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Health
I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward "A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." (Fred Allen) Health "Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein Health
I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius Health "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig
deep into the actual and get something out of that - this doubtless is the right way to live.
-- H Guide to understanding a net.addict's day:
Slow day: didn't have much to do, so spent three hours on usenet.
Busy day: managed to work in three hours of usenet.
Bad day: barely squeezed in three ho Health
