He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
-- Publilius Syrus "... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? Health Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol "I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real senten "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) Health
It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince "We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up
our minds to walk boldly through them.
-- Orison Swett Marden There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer Health The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin Health
"Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at
the same time.
- Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry
that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
-- Dale Carnegie Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Health You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
reputation.
-- Oscar Wilde No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. Health
Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
freedom.
-- Albert Einstein Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating
influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the
commun May you never leave your marriage alive. Health Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. "I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's Health
A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore:
? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its
duties.
? Work It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing. There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's
being off the network.
-- Guy Almes "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) Health The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in
a car he sticks his head out the window.
-- Steve Bluestone Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard Health
"The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would
have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I
didn' "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat Health 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. "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) "Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) Health
The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad 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 I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me
is another matter.
- Sir Winston Churchill Health If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
time Health
Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Boies Penrose, 1931 "Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Health When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
the workmanship.
-- John Renmerde What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that.
-- Shakespeare, William Health
When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill 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 Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George bernard Shaw He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz Health "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another
to the world.
-- Antonio Machado "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Health
You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
-- James McNeill Whistler In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent...
-- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported
in a contemporary "American Scholar" Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem
mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's
chara "I'll endorse with my name any of the following; clothing AC-DC, cigarettes, small tapes, sound equipment, ROCK N' ROLL RECORDS, anything, film, and film equipment, Food, Helium, Whips, MONEY!!" (And Health I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje Health
No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action
of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) Health There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and
inex If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) Health
