Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when
people laugh.
-- George Bernard Shaw If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
-- James McNeill Whistler Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer Mental Health Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche "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) Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi Mental Health
If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
-- Maya Angelou "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom Mental Health It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Mental Health
A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) "If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion Mental Health Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw Mental Health
Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville 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 "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Mental Health 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 You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi Mental Health
A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb "Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I Mental Health "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Mental Health
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 "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines
staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you
ask th Mental Health I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) blah "Ideas are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and, following them, you reach yo Mental Health
Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a
philosopher.
- Socrates Mental Health "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) Mental Health
Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford "Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) Mental Health "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West "Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) Mental Health
Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good
results: drag behind car through puddles, blow-dry on roofrack.
-- Laundry instructions on a shirt My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. 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 "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) Mental Health He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
-- Publilius Syrus If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) Mental Health
Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the
purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
-- Anatole France Mental Health Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-- Irwin Corey Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus Mental Health
A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by
trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by l You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-- Richard Bach Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock Mental Health Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in
a car he sticks his head out the window.
-- Steve Bluestone "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) "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) Mental Health
