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"Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment.
-- Voltaire In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty "In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) Health I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
-- Douglas Adams Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it
doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever
sea My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! Health
People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed.
They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position.
-- John Hogan, Commonwealth Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West Health "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of
something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than
cocaine.
Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii Health
Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely
unnatural condition.
-- Robert Briffault The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
-- Elbert Hubbard "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) Health "Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle "The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) Health
Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Health We can say 'Peace on Earth,' we can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have
not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us, then it will not be.
-- Betty Shabazz "If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." (Albert Einstein) Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu Health
People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only
make $500,000.
-- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
-- Arthur C. Coxe There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to
learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
-- Michel de Montaigne Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
-- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) 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. "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes Health
Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
-- M. Hirschfield There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one
of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
-- George Bernard Shaw Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call
me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
-- Rebecca West, Health Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that
can be shot when it breaks down.
-- Russell Baker If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren "Drugs have done a lot of good. A lot of good songs have been written. 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. 'Dark Side of the Moon?' 100 dead kids. At least that many were conceived by people listening Health
Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner Health Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
-- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) Health
He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) "It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin Health I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
-- Albert Einstein And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having
passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it.
-- Anonymous Health
"Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.
-- Mark Twain One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the
lessons that history has to teach.
-- Aldous Huxley An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf Health The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu Health
The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton "To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-- Samuel Butler "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) Health Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire "Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Health
Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things.
-- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. "Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." (Dylan Thomas) The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson Health Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings "No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree." (Lee Rudolph) Health
