No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac I don't feel good.
-- Luther Burbank, dying words Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams "Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James V "Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb I worship the quicksand he walks in.
- Art Buchwald V
Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( 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 The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson "The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." (George Bernar I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 V Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) V
"It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce 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 "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) V >From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt V
If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) "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 your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. V He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
newspapers.
-- Thomas Jefferson Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte V
Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and
joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not
as You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live V If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
one.
-- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner V
I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. 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 A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon V If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) V
I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant "Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with
the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover,
Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem V I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they
study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.
-- Gerald Early, writer, baseball do Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana V
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 Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
-- Bhagava Gita "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood V "I think people resist freedom because they're afraid of the unknown. But it's ironic....That unknown was once very well known. It's where are souls belong....The only solution is to confront them--co Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl V
The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are.
-- Gore Vidal V "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz V
"We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and
blows up the bonfire.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- W. Somerset Maugham To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu V In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken "Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly V
I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the
marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.
-- Bette Davis He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 V A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous V
