To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Sřren Kierkegaard An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
-- Robert A. Humphrey Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if
he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) Health Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is
merely a good excuse not to play football.
-- Fran Lebowitz I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') Health
"The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want,
and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.
-- Fred Astaire In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. Health I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this
is not difficult.
-- Charlotte Whitton Health
The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth 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 "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) Health Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
-- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers 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 "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Health
Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
-- Anonymous "For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and
therefore congenial to it.
-- G. K. Chesterton "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') Health Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.
- Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep
up with software demands The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein Health
Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley 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 He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine; as he
who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me.
-- Thomas Jefferson There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house
as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
-- Homer, Odyssey, ninth century Health "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good
marriage
-- Martin Luther I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
-- Will Rogers Health
It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Mark Twain Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty "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) Health Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
bathroom in the middle of it.
-- Nick Mirov Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV "Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wit Health
Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton "To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) 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 require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-- Dorothy Parker Health There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you
yourself have altered.
-- Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) Health
Anything too stupid to be said, is sung.
-- Voltaire Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. Health .. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over
myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long
per A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb Health
Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the
writing will be just as it should be.
-- Mark Twain Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
neighborhood.
-- Maya Angelou blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
-- James Stephens Health Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.
-- General Douglas MacArthur For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) Health
It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and
illiterate sport fishermen.
-- P. J. O'Rourke The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
-- Bhagava Gita "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) 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 Health "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl could want in her life, except for good
taste in men!
-- Wedding Toast 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" Health
He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
imagination.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Health Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Saying that Windows95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and
believing you've witnessed the second coming.
-- Guy Kawasaki "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) Health
