I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
-- M. Hirschfield The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it.
And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.
-- George Bus I worship the quicksand he walks in.
- Art Buchwald Health and Medical I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous Health and Medical
Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
day into your answers.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Health and Medical Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
- Karl Wallenda "The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if
he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli Health and Medical
We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) Health and Medical Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier. --H.L. Mencken I don't feel good.
-- Luther Burbank, dying words How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
a leg.
-- Abraham Lincoln Health and Medical
The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore
exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.
-- Slavoj Zizek There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
imagination.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of
pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.
-- Lyster Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde They were doing a full back shot of me in a swimsuit and I thought, Oh my God, I have to be so
brave. See, every woman hates herself from behind.
-- Cindy Crawford, supermodel Health and Medical I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Indeed, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all.
-- Ogden Nash, Song of the Open Road, 1945 Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise "The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) Health and Medical
"Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to
substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
-- Iris Murdoch "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 Health and Medical "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) "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) It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide Health and Medical
Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas
doctors rob you and kill you too.
-- Anton Chekhov He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine; as he
who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me.
-- Thomas Jefferson A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no
religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear
of Health and Medical Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje Health and Medical
This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
-- Albert Einstein Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances
continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the
distance Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the
really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
-- Mark Twain Health and Medical "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy Health and Medical
Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and
illiterate sport fishermen.
-- P. J. O'Rourke The telephone company is urging people to *please* not use the telephone unless it is absolutely
necessary in order to keep the lines open for emergency personnel. We'll be right back after this
bre "You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more
they possess.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') Health and Medical "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) "Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana Health and Medical
Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
-- George Santayana I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde Health and Medical Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
-- Benjamin Disraeli He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian Health and Medical
The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman Health and Medical The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-- Richard Bach Health and Medical
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-- Nigerian Proverb Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb "To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) Health and Medical Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it
doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever
sea "To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) "The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) Health and Medical
