"Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
-- Booker T. Washington "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) Health The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) Health
Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
-- Herbert Westren Turnbull There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran 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 What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!
-- Dr. Strangelove Health Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Health
How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei Health Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein 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 Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal Health
"Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen Health Every flower must grow through dirt.
-- Anonymous I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier Health
History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford blah "Ideas are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and, following them, you reach yo blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola Health Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) Health
"To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be
closed for any other business.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the
unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is
also the m When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-- Sacha Guitry Health "To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) 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 Health
Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and
retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. In medieval times, people thought that evil spirits could enter a person through an open mouth.
These days they more often leave that way.
-- David Deckert Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are
capable of being.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?
-- Michael Meissner Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five
isn't bad.
-- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 Health 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 Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be
feasible.
- A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop Health
Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl Health Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
- James Stephens "I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George Health
"You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
-- Martin Mull Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen
closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping.
-- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Health Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Health
Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
-- Erica Jong Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
--Loesje A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi "The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. Health To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to
finish without knowing what you have written.
-- Jean Jacques Rousseau "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being
gummed by a newt. It doesn't actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle.
-- Molly Ivins Health
"Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde Health Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
-- Erma Bombeck Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and
therefore congenial to it.
-- G. K. Chesterton If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
bureaucracy won't.
-- Hyman Rickover Health
