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One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. Medstead Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 "Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss." (Hal Holbrook, Wallstreet) Medstead
A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson "If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." (Albert Einstein) Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ "One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) "Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) Medstead Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
-- Gloria Leonard 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
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"'Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!'" (Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass) All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away,
the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) Medstead Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell Medstead
It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf 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 It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) Medstead Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad Medstead
"Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay "Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Medstead No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for
half the money.
-- Arthur Godfrey Medstead
One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
-- Stanislaw J. Lem We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours Medstead "Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves 2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time.
-- inside of a Pepsi cap Medstead
It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
-- Mae West We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours "Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier Medstead The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with
the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover,
Medstead
Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you
don't know. He knows now that he doesn't know. Last year, he didn't know that.
-- Bill Parcels, New Engla "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) Medstead Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein Medstead
I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism. --Heidi Hartmann [The Unhappy The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point Medstead "If I were still a critic, I would loathe knowing the person I was writing about. There's enough of an incestuous relationship between subject and writer." (Manny Farber, American film theorist) We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not
know what to create.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Medstead
Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
-- Plutarch The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
-- Robert M. Pirsig The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
-- Niels Bohr You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room
enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.
-- Fred Allen "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) Medstead "Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be
paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's
life Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset Medstead
"Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god." (Jean Rostand) A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to
contact us.
-- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) Medstead There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert Medstead
