"The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
-- Francis Crawford Health All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra Health
It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein "Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any compliment and limit, but only o "Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) 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 I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton Health Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically!
-- Steven Wright Well, I think that it's a- it's had some difficult times but I think we have- we, I think, have been able
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It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. Health When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song Health
"Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
-- Erica Jong 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 Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler Health Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
-- Oscar Wilde "Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Health
"A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison "The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) Health Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door
and just visit now and then.
-- Katharine Hepburn "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution,
of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always
be Health
In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) "Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." (Dylan Thomas) To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers Health "I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio." (Joan Rivers) Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf Health
A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great 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. Health Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
-- Ray Bandy "Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) "Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." (Gertrude Stein) Health
I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
write better.
- A. J. Liebling Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber "When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) Health This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to
run his, either.
-- Anonymous Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Louis Berlioz Health
>From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some
day I intend reading it.
-- Groucho Marx Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Health "Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx "Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai Health
It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including:
* Both of your socks should always be the same color
* Or they should at least both be fairly dark
-- Dave Barry My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood "Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the
slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional
convi Health "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-- Richard Bach Health
The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
- George Bernard Shaw All you need is love.
-- The Beatles, song title 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 It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV Health "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment... it's
exciting to have a real crisis on your hands.
-- Margaret Thatcher, on the Falklands Conflict Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito Health
