A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is
thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.
-- Henry Wadsworth Lo blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa "Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) 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) "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Health
"Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea.
-- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone "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) The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
-- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 "... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) Health The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who
take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
-- INDIRA Health
Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. "I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy Health Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass
produced with unskilled labor.
-- Wernher von Braun It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing. I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh Health
your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein Health A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Health
"Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
-- Ambrose Bierce "One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. Health I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put
over my kitchen table.
-- Rodney Dangerfield All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton Health
If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) Health "Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed "There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) Health
Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-- Stephen Covey I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) 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 "One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Health Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James "It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson Health
"No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine "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) The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his
life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.
-- Francois Cavanna Health "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no
religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear
of "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) Health
"Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) Health Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
history.
-- George Bernard Shaw With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln Health
Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
-- Woody Allen In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore:
? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its
duties.
? Work Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" "For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Health Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) "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' Health
Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford 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 A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline
luggage.
-- Mark Russell It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
-- Vince Lombardi Health "Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) "In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg Health
