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Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx "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) Health Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec 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 Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells Health
May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) Health It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. Health
I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power
so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are.
-- Gore Vidal Health The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
- unknown How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
a leg.
-- Abraham Lincoln All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Health
When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I ask
is a chance."
-- Anon. The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
-- J. Heller "Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Health The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this
is true.
-- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion Beginning in February 1976 your assistance benefits will be discontinued ... Reason: it has been
reported to our office that you expired on January 1, 1976.
-- excerpt from a letter, Illinois Depart Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau 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 Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier. --H.L. Mencken Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West Health Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) Health
I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Indeed, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all.
-- Ogden Nash, Song of the Open Road, 1945 "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action
of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not,
the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms
with Health My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in
bed with her.
-- Lenny Bruce This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. "My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go." (Oscar Wilde, his last recorded words) Health
Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and
joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not
as I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying Health What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing. Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
coattails.
-- Clarence Darrow Health
His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland Health "An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid." (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th earl of) The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine "The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) Health
You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton blah "You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein Health "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) We look forward to the time when the power to love of will replace the love of power. Then will our
world know the blessings of peace.
-- William Gladstone "Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) Health
You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be
sacrificed to expediency.
-- W. Somerset Maugham There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
-- James Stephens Health blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.
-- King George V Health
There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to
be a coincidence.
-- Jeremy S. Anderson "You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) "In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat." (Robert Byrne) Health I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and
inex "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) Health
