I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue.
-- Anonymous Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada Health Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you
a hundre You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you
can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist.
-- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost Health
What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
-- Woody Allen The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of
them, it's considered to be your style.
-- Fred Astaire Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through
self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
-- Helen Keller A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point Health Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. "Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton Health
Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this
is not difficult.
-- Charlotte Whitton Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. "Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) "Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( Health I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin "If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) Health
Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning
there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have
people all 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 "Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
-- Ambrose Bierce "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) Health The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by
trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by l You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's
arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
-- Jonathan Carroll, Outside If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken Health
Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
- Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. Health The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle I'll sleep when I'm dead.
- Warren Zevon 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
"If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create
it herself.
- Anais Nin He who laughs, lasts.
-- Mary Pettibone Poole Health A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
reputation.
-- Oscar Wilde "Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) Health
Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words Guide to understanding a net.addict's day:
Slow day: didn't have much to do, so spent three hours on usenet.
Busy day: managed to work in three hours of usenet.
Bad day: barely squeezed in three ho "I offer images; I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached ... But, we can only open the doors. We can't drag people through. I can't free them unless they want to be free--more than any "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) Health Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
-- Albert Einstein Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber Health
Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept
me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't
everythin "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
history.
-- George Bernard Shaw Health Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
-- H. L. Mencken We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli Health
"What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux." (Thomas Pynchon) Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf Health "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur Health
Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet
not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
-- François de La Rouch "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST Health A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
existence.
-- Sydney Smith I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
-- Will Rogers Health
"Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) "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 May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person that loves you
enough chance to love you enough.
-- Dinah Shore Health "Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept
me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't
everythin "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) Health
