Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley "I think people resist freedom because they're afraid of the unknown. But it's ironic....That unknown was once very well known. It's where are souls belong....The only solution is to confront them--co Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above
weakness Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large
organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.
-- Dave Barry My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician General Practice You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn
themselves to a life of vinegar.
-- Countess of Blessington "The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only th General Practice
"The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." (George Bernar I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan blah "You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) >From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some
day I intend reading it.
-- Groucho Marx General Practice "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams General Practice
To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing.
-- George Benard Shaw All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
-- Anonymous And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery General Practice The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville General Practice
"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) What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crow "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) General Practice If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways
to be, you know that there are...
-- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric 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 I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford General Practice
Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
-- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
-- Maya Angelou Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes General Practice "When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) "The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-- Gilda Radner General Practice
"Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "The feminists used to say that chivalry and ladyhood were ways of keeping women down and preventing them from standing toe to toe with the guys. Now you've got a lot of women saying that if a guy is To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
-- Francis Crawford General Practice When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give. -- Cass Daley "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) General Practice
Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
-- John Adams, dying words Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other
friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things:
and in that There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
-- Neils Bohr General Practice A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
-- Mae West There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
-- Ray Bandy General Practice
You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!
-- Dr. Strangelove Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. Just
flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf "See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and General Practice There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you
yourself have altered.
-- Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) General Practice
We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
-- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of
suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room.
-- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman General Practice University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger "... adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, quoted in his obituary, Time) I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher General Practice
"The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.
-- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War "Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your
way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition -- plowing straight ahead, come what
may General Practice There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke General Practice
Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
-- Hermione Gingold Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
--Loesje Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) "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) It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen General Practice This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call
me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
-- Rebecca West, Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
-- Byrd Baggett General Practice
