"I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
-- Leslie Jeanne Sahler "Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) Health The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
-- Indigo Girls, song lyric "Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" Health
"Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) "We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) Health We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good
results: drag behind car through puddles, blow-dry on roofrack.
-- Laundry instructions on a shirt An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
-- Robert A. Humphrey Health
Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
-- Margaret Mead Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are
difficult.
-- Lucius Anneaus Seneca Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?
-- Michael Meissner Health Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark
in one another.
-- Kenny Ausubel As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust
there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
-- Andre Norton What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry Health
It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something.
-- Seymour Papert "To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Health Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
-- H. L. Mencken Health
"When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt Health "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) 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 One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles Health
"All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What
do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came
back with ano We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a
few grains of corn now and then."
-- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, Health 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 Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-- Groucho Marx They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to
run his, either.
-- Anonymous Health
Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
-- Red Buttons The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron Health "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) Health
"The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) Health The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost Health
"I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio." (Joan Rivers) "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins Health There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. 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 Health
"Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Good friends are good for your health.
-- Irwin Sarason May you never leave your marriage alive. If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
-- Scott Adams Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb Health Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz Health
"What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Borge All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at
the same time.
- Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan Health Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers Health
