"Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us.
-- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt Health Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
-- Herbert Westren Turnbull The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Health
To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson Health It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one
should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do
not allow "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) Health
your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to
realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and
grie "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Health "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley Health
If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield "God is dead: but considering the state Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom) A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein 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 The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you
together, but do so with all your heart.
-- Marcus Aurelius Health
"I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution,
of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always
be You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland Health If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) Health
I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw Health I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism. --Heidi Hartmann [The Unhappy blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) Health
Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
-- M. Hirschfield Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment.
-- Voltaire One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if
possible, speak a few reasonable words.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Health "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how
many can get through to you.
-- Mortimer J. Adler 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
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 Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
-- Mother Teresa Health My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner Health
A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples'
decisions for them?
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the
marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.
-- Bette Davis When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. Health Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 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 Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous Health
What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
toys?
-- Douglas Coupland blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) "We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) "To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. Health He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
-- J. Heller "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) Health
Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
happen to him.
-- John Barrymore - last words Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
- James Stephens Health "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco 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
