All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils Conditions and Diseases What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln Conditions and Diseases
Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwile careers in the
street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack
of u We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of
them become real as you can.
-- Frank W. Woolworth To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide "People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold." (Richard Thalheimer, president, The Conditions and Diseases The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins Conditions and Diseases
It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe "Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wit "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. Conditions and Diseases Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
-- Winston Churchill Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more
experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat
soiled or torn? Conditions and Diseases
I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
-- George Clemenceau blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin Conditions and Diseases "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown Conditions and Diseases
"I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
-- Byrd Baggett "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde Conditions and Diseases When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill 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 You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra Conditions and Diseases
"A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn
themselves to a life of vinegar.
-- Countess of Blessington A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
-- Brian Pickrell It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen Conditions and Diseases "Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) Anything too stupid to be said, is sung.
-- Voltaire When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry Conditions and Diseases
When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already
were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
-- Chekhov "I've never let my school interfere with my education." (Mark Twain) The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln Conditions and Diseases By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
a fortune Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost "Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) Conditions and Diseases
You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something.
-- Seymour Papert Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort "Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers Conditions and Diseases Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away,
the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
- H. G. Wells The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone Conditions and Diseases
Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton "The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford Conditions and Diseases blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman "A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) Conditions and Diseases
It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.
-- David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes. Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
- Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable
statues Conditions and Diseases Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Conditions and Diseases
It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
-- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't
certain we knew better.
-- George Bird Evans "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing.
Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
-- Oscar Wilde Conditions and Diseases The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth
shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.
-- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, "Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) Conditions and Diseases
