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Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and
retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was
doing spying.
-- Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets for spying, in an i Health There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker Health
What's new? Most of my wife. Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each
other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's
nerves I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to
finish without knowing what you have written.
-- Jean Jacques Rousseau It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde Health Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I
was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper.
-- Smith & Jones Health
Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison "Those who feel certainty are stupid and those with any imagination or understanding are filled with doubt and indecision." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) Health Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
-- Sioux Indian Prayer Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) Health
I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song "When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." (Friedrich Wilhelm Ni 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 Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each
other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's
nerves Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of
responsibility at the other.
-- Ronald Reagan, Saturday Evening Post, 1965 Health That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been
all along.
-- Madeleine L'Engle Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and
illiterate sport fishermen.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the
consequences.
-- Isadora Duncan Health
"I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller "Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) Health Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Health
I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. "In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show "The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
-- Publilius Syrus Health Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing
they die earlier.
-- H. L. Mencken "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. Health
The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do
its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.
-- "To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way
of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to
learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
-- Michel de Montaigne Health "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and
retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. Health
This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Tear open packet, unfold and use.
-- Directions on moist towelette package If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.
-- King George V Health "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi "I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w Health
"The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing
matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.
-- Amy Bloom Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle Health We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they
are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
-- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Health
Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for
comprehensive health care during a candidates' forum, said he supported "erection-to-
resurrection" coverage. He later a "A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." (Fred Allen) "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Health A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
-- Joseph Addison "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as
saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball.
-- Deborah Tan Health
"The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) We look forward to the time when the power to love of will replace the love of power. Then will our
world know the blessings of peace.
-- William Gladstone "One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Health "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have
had any experience with them.
-- H. L. Mencken "When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) Health
