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Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns "In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
-- Sidney Goff Health "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) Work is a four-letter word.
-- The Smiths (Morrissey) Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde Health
Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley
Temple could do it at the age of four.
-- Katharine Hepburn Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. Health "Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation." (Larry Flynt) I just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show "Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) Health
The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
is.
-- Arnold Bennett Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) Health Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up
our minds to walk boldly through them.
-- Orison Swett Marden Health
Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein "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) My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no
character.
-- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
-- Edgar Watson Howe Health Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had
never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
-- Orison Swett Marden A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller Health
The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In
this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
-- Marianne Williamson By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you
will become a philosopher.
-- Socrates Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld Health I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.... This is an ex-parrot.
-- John Cleese, Monty Python, British comedy television show A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted
by a little physical antipathy.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
write better.
- A. J. Liebling Health
"Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy
the waking hours much more.
-- Woody Allen blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Health Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne Health
"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) The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other
is ready.
-- Henry David Thoreau "I should reproach him for not giving us enough evidence." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970, what he would say to God if they 'met') We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce Health "Those who feel certainty are stupid and those with any imagination or understanding are filled with doubt and indecision." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) Health
"Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
cough.
-- Pearl Williams "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) Health Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than
the procreation of children.
-- Thornton Wilder Health
Man and wife make one fool. "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) "I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes "Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart Health 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 The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
- Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable
statues Health
Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of
our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
-- John Adams Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet
not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
-- François de La Rouch "By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) Health No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
-- Booker T. Washington This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises,
promotions, and other signs of appreciation.
-- Anonymous "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Health
I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
-- Nathan Hale Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwile careers in the
street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack
of u "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted.
-- Anonymous 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 Health "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Health
