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"In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time "Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Boies Penrose, 1931 Health Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Health
The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong
and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny
is but th The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "If I were still a critic, I would loathe knowing the person I was writing about. There's enough of an incestuous relationship between subject and writer." (Manny Farber, American film theorist) Health Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and
illiterate sport fishermen.
-- P. J. O'Rourke blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Health
"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) 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,
I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and
members of the Senate.
-- Dan Quayle, Former Vice-President All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The
rest is trust.
-- Nanette Newman, British actress Health My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a
philosopher.
- Socrates "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen Health
"Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss." (Hal Holbrook, Wallstreet) Women's liberationists spread the word that...the only peaceful family is one in which either the
wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous.
-- R. Emmett Tyell, The Liberal Crack-Up, 1984 "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavours to live the life which
one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
-- Henry David Thoreau Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain Health Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same
joke and still feel lonely.
-- T. S. Eliot blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) Health
Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
the workmanship.
-- John Renmerde I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject,
when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron
scumbags dev 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 Health My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland Health
We can say 'Peace on Earth,' we can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have
not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us, then it will not be.
-- Betty Shabazz One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do
what he was afraid he couldn't do.
-- Henry Ford The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker Health "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a
minute, it's longer than any hour. That is relativity.
-- Albert Einstein Health
Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "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 A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem Health "I'll endorse with my name any of the following; clothing AC-DC, cigarettes, small tapes, sound equipment, ROCK N' ROLL RECORDS, anything, film, and film equipment, Food, Helium, Whips, MONEY!!" (And Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Health
Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines
staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you
ask th This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without
feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex,
the ugl Health When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up
something appropriate and do it.
-- E. W. Howe Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Health
A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the
false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
-- Salvador Dali The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
- George Bernard Shaw Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Health The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.
-- Sigmund Freud A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who
marries a man to reform him.
-- Elbert Hubbard Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde Health
We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution,
of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always
be "We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
-- Erma Bombeck "Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any compliment and limit, but only o Health "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-- Richard Bach The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the
false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
-- Salvador Dali Health
A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that.
-- Shakespeare, William A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
-- Joseph Addison Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
-- Stanislaw J. Lem It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they
are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
-- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man Health The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde [You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up
between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever.
-- Virginia Woolf Health
