"Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) "Frank and explicit; that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others." (Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil) Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower "One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Health Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple "No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree." (Lee Rudolph) Health
Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary
to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.'
-- Bierce, A Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of
fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality
and "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e Health Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you
have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.
-- Aldous Huxley In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Health
No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate,
the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
-- Rainer Maria Ril Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
-- John Tudor I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein 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 Health Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted.
-- Anonymous The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Health
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 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 Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to
help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to
comfort us along Health Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with
the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
-- Cynthia Heimel blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael Health
"As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. 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 Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
-- Satchel Paige Health I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
-- Virginia Woolf 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 It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
-- Emiliano Zapata Health
I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is
when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.
-- Marcel Achard The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay Health Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) Health
If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware;
those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software.
-- Unknown author, Levitating T "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we
respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
-- H. L. Mencken "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) Health Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give. -- Cass Daley In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller Health
Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson All television is children's television.
-- Richard P. Adler Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to
criticize others.
-- H. Jackson Brown Health We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we
respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
-- H. L. Mencken To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they
study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.
-- Gerald Early, writer, baseball do Health
Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware;
those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software.
-- Unknown author, Levitating T If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
-- Elbert Hubbard Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in
accordance with the dictates of reason.
-- Oscar Wilde May you never leave your marriage alive. I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
-- Albert Einstein Health "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken Man is a natural polygamist. He always has one woman leading him by the nose and another
hanging on to his coattails.
-- H. L. Mencken Health
Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty Health Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes
time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.
-- Fred Astaire To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash Health
Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde "The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) Health Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
-- George Saunders - last words If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words Health
