"It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing." (Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises) 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 "When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln Health Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is
merely a good excuse not to play football.
-- Fran Lebowitz The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this
is true.
-- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion Health
When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims
of intact ones.
-- Peter DeVries To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide "People drag their progeny around with them like a ball and chain, like some terrible deadweight that hinders their every move - and that, as often as not, effectively winds up killing them." (Michel Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Health 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 "Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Health
Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman Health Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood "Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) Health
Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment.
-- Voltaire When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
- Buckminster Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) Health Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for
themselves.
-- F. Emerson Andrews "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle Health
You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec "I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman Health Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson "In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana Health
Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had
never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
-- Orison Swett Marden No other success can compensate for failure in the home.
-- David O. McKay, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Advice to parents at General Conference of he
LDS Church, April, 1964 "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Health Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
pure ignorance?
-- Holbrook Jackson Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson Health
The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau Health "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife "Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details." (Andy Warhol, America, 1985) Health
I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
-- Adela Rogers St. John Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain Health There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde "Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the Health
Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances
continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the
distance 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 It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some
simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion.
-- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton 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 Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
-- Mae West Health
I tried a mail order bride, once, but she was damaged in the mail, and I had to return the unused part for my full refund. Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
bathroom in the middle of it.
-- Nick Mirov If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Health "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein Health
The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. Health If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley Health
