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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 "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
-- Woody Allen You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller Health Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith Good friends are good for your health.
-- Irwin Sarason Health
To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation.
-- Latin Proverb The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford "Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada Health Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference
between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I
don't know and 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 Health
"I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
happen to him.
-- John Barrymore - last words All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
-- Anonymous Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President Health No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. 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 "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) Health
"The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) "Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to t "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
- Cicero I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in
charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
-- Hen Health "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous Health food makes me sick.
-- Calvin Trillin Health
Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop "There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
wastes to Third Wo A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson Health A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who
marries a man to reform him.
-- Elbert Hubbard "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis Health
When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being
brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
-- Cynthia H Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea.
-- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
-- Samuel Johnson There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be
said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot
successfully You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-- Richard Bach Health Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal Health
Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa "Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker
room is the temple where they worship arrested development.
-- Russell Baker "The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) Health "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on
a date.
-- Caroline Rhea Health
There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a
natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
-- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx Health Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen Health
Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does
come, we no longer exist.
-- Epicurus "Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-- Dorothy Parker "When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." (Friedrich Wilhelm Ni Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan Health Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the
table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the
disg I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.
-- Wayne Gretzky Health
They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.
-- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the
House Bank scandal Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. Health "It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) "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) "Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) Health
Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you
a hundre Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe the social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for
all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation.
-- Peter Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. All television is children's television.
-- Richard P. Adler Health "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) "It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian Health
