Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without
feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex,
the ugl "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "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) Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim
to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire.
-- Gen. George Health That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow Health
One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist 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 The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows Health Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
-- Sigmund Freud Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and
joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not
as "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) Health
You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By
giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you
will The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane "If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince Health You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James "Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) Health
Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of
them become real as you can.
-- Frank W. Woolworth MARRIAGE, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two
slaves, making in all, two.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates Health "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol "The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Health
I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West "From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy "I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) "It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Health "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. "To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) Health
Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes
your wife.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show "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) Health "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
-- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler Health
A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth "I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
-- Robert Orben Health The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince Health
We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton Health Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne Health
Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II Health There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!
-- Calvin Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual Health
Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen "You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
-- Charles Pierce Health Tear open packet, unfold and use.
-- Directions on moist towelette package At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in
every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger Health
"It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde Health Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
-- James Stephens Health
