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Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to
realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and
grie Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the
consequences.
-- Isadora Duncan "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little
plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.
-- Ha The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
ethical infants.
-- General Omar Bradley Health A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
toys?
-- Douglas Coupland If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton Health
When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one
should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do
not allow Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted.
-- Anonymous The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt Health In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken "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) Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason Health
A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There
are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's
reall The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up
between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever.
-- Virginia Woolf "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
-- James Stephens The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin Health University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson Health
Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
ages as much as 20 years.
-- Anonymous "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) 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, Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton Health "Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) "A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers Health
"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) Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting "Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan Health I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being
gummed by a newt. It doesn't actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle.
-- Molly Ivins One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
- Bertrand Russell
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A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He
experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of
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Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz "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) Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
-- Anonymous Health The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. 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 Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately
becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in
those tiny toil Health
In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is
simply one of those things which happen from time to time.
-- Edward P. Tryon The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine Health They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein Health
"I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Health "I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs
long enough."
-- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
it.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman
is one who can find such a man.
-- Lana Turner Health
In the blithe days of honeymoon,
With Kate's allurements smitten,
I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon,
And call'd her dearest kitten.
But now my kitten's grown a cat,
And cross like other wives.
"Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous
and dreadful.
-- Samuel Johnson Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
-- Phillip Brooks Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
-- George Jean Nathan Health Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one.
-- Oscar Levant, to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) Health
Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 Health 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 If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "I offer images; I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached ... But, we can only open the doors. We can't drag people through. I can't free them unless they want to be free--more than any Health
The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
-- Ambrose Bierce Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the
top.
-- Ed Abbey "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) Health In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
-- Helen Rowland ... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more
aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since
Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness
are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser
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