The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with
the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover,
Health Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner Health
I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
-- Bhagava Gita "No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." (Henry B. Adams) Health When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
-- Ernest Hemingway A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. Health
"I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always send them a plant to wish them well. Of course, it's a cactus." (Norman B "Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because
generally they are the same people.
-- G. K. Chesterton Health If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the
next meal would come from.
-- Peter F. Drucker Health
You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject,
when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron
scumbags dev "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) Health Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't
natural.
-- Bob Beckel, on term limits, CBS This Morning, 3/30/95 Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant Health
"Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) Health In medieval times, people thought that evil spirits could enter a person through an open mouth.
These days they more often leave that way.
-- David Deckert "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Health
Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan "Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures--in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together." I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never
be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
-- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to Health "Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll Health
An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill "Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) Health The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in
accordance with the dictates of reason.
-- Oscar Wilde Health
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 If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.
-- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995 The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or
theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
-- George Santayana Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. Health Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher Health
"Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth I just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.
- Henry Kissinger Health Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
-- Pablo Picasso "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) Health
I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and
members of the Senate.
-- Dan Quayle, Former Vice-President "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words 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 you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf Health This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost Health
Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle "I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
-- Christopher Morley Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson Health "And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Health
