Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find
that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our
pain We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Health To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) "The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) Health
"Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) "Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wit "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we
were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
-- John Stuart Mill Health He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
-- Publilius Syrus "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin Health
Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and
tomorrow aint as bad as it seems.
-- Billy Joel Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of
humor is just common sense, dancing.
-- Clive James If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
-- Maya Angelou "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) 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 Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting Health
"It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." (Mark Twain) Tear open packet, unfold and use.
-- Directions on moist towelette package Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point Health "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) Health
Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to
heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need
more supervision.
-- Lynn "It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing." (Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises) Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours Health "Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
-- B.F. Skinner May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. Health
I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more
experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat
soiled or torn? No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a
holding pattern over Philadelphia.
-- Judith Viorst A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi Health The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison "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 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 Health
By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas
doctors rob you and kill you too.
-- Anton Chekhov If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet Health "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis Health
Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.
-- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen Health Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson Health
Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb 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 Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud Health When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too
conservative.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
-- Oscar Wilde Health
More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-- Groucho Marx I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those
little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived Health "Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. Health
Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words Spinster: A bachelor's wife. "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington Health I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain Tear open packet, unfold and use.
-- Directions on moist towelette package "A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it." (Claude Rains, as Mr. Dryden, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) Health
