I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi "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) Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) 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 Thurgau Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with
the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
-- Cynthia Heimel We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." Thurgau
I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
and bought jewelry.
-- Rita Rudner Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 Thurgau There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton Thurgau
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 The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill I don't think I'll get married again. I'll just find a woman I don't like and give her a house.
-- Lewis Grizzard He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that "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) Thurgau "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and
blows up the bonfire.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Thurgau
Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth Man and wife make one fool. Thurgau A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
-- Robert Benchley Thurgau
Icky icky icky icky fKANG zoop-boing n zowzyin...
-- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) Thurgau "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely
unnatural condition.
-- Robert Briffault "Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of g Thurgau
Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no
character.
-- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows
how to make us disobedient.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln Thurgau You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
-- Ray Bandy Thurgau
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 blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) He who laughs last didn't get it.
-- Helen Giangregorio "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas
doctors rob you and kill you too.
-- Anton Chekhov Thurgau Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude "I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston Thurgau
I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones
you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in
your We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop "A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey Thurgau "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
- Samuel Palmer Thurgau
In view of all the deadly computer viruses that have been spreading lately, Weekend Update
would like to remind you: when you link up to another computer, you're linking up to every
computer that th The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
-- Colin Wilson Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc
jockey is not allowed to talk.
-- Fran Lebowitz Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy
contests, but they keep the crowd's attention.
-- Anonymous Thurgau After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood 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 Thurgau
In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.
-- Georges Danton, to his executioner Weaseling out of things is good. It's what separates us from the other animals....except weasels.
-- Homer Simpson, character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Thurgau Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Thurgau
Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him.
-- Cher I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
-- Jules Renard Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the
time by watching the second hand of a clock.
-- Ben Hecht What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine Thurgau Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol "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) Thurgau
