The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod "No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." (Henry B. Adams) The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One
cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the
marvelous str "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) Health Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass
produced with unskilled labor.
-- Wernher von Braun If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) Health
Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is
always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.
-- Friedrich Nietzsch It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing. Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer Health Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature
machine gun.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely
to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
toys?
-- Douglas Coupland Health
There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live 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 "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen Health A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute
for life.
-- Andrew Brown Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon Health
"The bite of conscience, like the bite of a dog into a stone, is a stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on
a date.
-- Caroline Rhea Health Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. Health
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 'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous The nourishment is palatable.
-- Millard Fillmore, dying words Health No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
- William Jennings Bryan Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim
to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire.
-- Gen. George "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Health
The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One
cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the
marvelous str "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you
don't know. He knows now that he doesn't know. Last year, he didn't know that.
-- Bill Parcels, New Engla 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. Health To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. Health
Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of
our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
-- John Adams Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the
top.
-- Ed Abbey "Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms Health I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed "I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always send them a plant to wish them well. Of course, it's a cactus." (Norman B The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley Health
Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the
top.
-- Ed Abbey When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't
have done.
-- Malcolm Forbes "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Health 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 A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three
children and no theories.
-- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester Health
The soul is healed by being with children.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevski "Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-- Ambrose Bierce Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up
our minds to walk boldly through them.
-- Orison Swett Marden "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) Health This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes
time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.
-- Fred Astaire Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly 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
Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to
get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
-- Billie Holliday All you need is love.
-- The Beatles, song title Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger,
as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is
when you r Health I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to
know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.
- Clarence Darrow, Health
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 Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land "In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." (Eric Hoffer) I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers Health "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) 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 "When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Health
