"I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is
merely a good excuse not to play football.
-- Fran Lebowitz "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) May you never leave your marriage alive. 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
optic Health Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Health
We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as
possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-- Gilda Radner Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) 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 Health "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan "Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Health
It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future
generations You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-- Richard Bach Health Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
-- Oscar Wilde Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye Health
I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage,
he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it.
-- Helen Roland I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed "Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart Health No other success can compensate for failure in the home.
-- David O. McKay, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Advice to parents at General Conference of he
LDS Church, April, 1964 I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
-- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 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 Health
"We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) "No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, g I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I
believed in liberals...
-- G. K. Chesterton "I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never
were, and ask why not?
-- Robert Francis Kennedy Health Weaseling out of things is good. It's what separates us from the other animals....except weasels.
-- Homer Simpson, character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not
allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating,
stealing, For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne Health
The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald We have only one person to blame, and that's each other.
-- Barry Beck, New York Ranger, on who started a fight furing a hockey game The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
-- Niels Bohr Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
-- Ken Dodd Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm Health The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) Health
"Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra) You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I
believed in liberals...
-- G. K. Chesterton Health This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically!
-- Steven Wright Health
The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same
joke and still feel lonely.
-- T. S. Eliot Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
-- Charles Pierce "The bite of conscience, like the bite of a dog into a stone, is a stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this
is not difficult.
-- Charlotte Whitton God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire Health Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What
do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came
back with ano Health
You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde "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 I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward Health "Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
neighborhood.
-- Maya Angelou Health
"For others do I wait ... for higher ones, stronger ones, more triumphant ones, merrier ones, for such as are built squarely in body and soul: laughing lions must come." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
-- J. Heller You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of
poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.
-- John Cage Health No other success can compensate for failure in the home.
-- David O. McKay, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Advice to parents at General Conference of he
LDS Church, April, 1964 As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are
certain, they do not refer to reality.
-- Albert Einstein Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert Health
The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing
changes and yet everything is completely different.
-- Aldous Huxley History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner Health I don't think I'll get married again. I'll just find a woman I don't like and give her a house.
-- Lewis Grizzard An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One
looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our
human The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Health
