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 "I put on an act sometimes, and people think I'm insensitive. Really, it's like a kind of armor because I'm too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I' Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
-- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) Health "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) the social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for
all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation.
-- Peter Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
-- Byrd Baggett Health
If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
write better.
- A. J. Liebling The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically,
ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion.
-- Fred Rogers, parody of "Row, row, row your boa "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Health People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only
make $500,000.
-- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-- Richard Bach Health
Vote early and vote often.
- Al Capone "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous Health "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) Health
A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde 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 "There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered." (Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom) Health "The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never
were, and ask why not?
-- Robert Francis Kennedy Health
There is more to life than increasing its speed.
-- Gandhi History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) "Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) We look forward to the time when the power to love of will replace the love of power. Then will our
world know the blessings of peace.
-- William Gladstone Health Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
-- Charles Pierce Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off
his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night.
-- Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley O "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) Health
"Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing.
-- George Benard Shaw Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone Health "Every now and then say, 'What the fu(c)k.' 'What the fu(c)k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future." (Curtis Armstrong, Risky Business, 1983) Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Health
There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) Health People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby
see only a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney and continue on their way.
-- Vincent Van Gogh In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland Health
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill "Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai "Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) The man with the best job in the country is the Vice President. All he has to do is get up every
morning and say, "How's the President?"
-- Will Rogers Health "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard "The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) Health
"To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet Health "We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein "It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Health
A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
-- Buke Ellington The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) Health In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
teachers.
-- Socrates Health
A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cćsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." (Mark Twain) "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) Health The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
time Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
- Robert Orben An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr Health
