"Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain 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" "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) "In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) Health The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.
-- John Murray The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Health
Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
-- H. L. Mencken I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it;
whenever you're right, shut up.
-- Ogden Nash No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
- William Jennings Bryan "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) Health "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) "I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Health
Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous Health A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous I tried a mail order bride, once, but she was damaged in the mail, and I had to return the unused part for my full refund. Health
I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed "Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) Health Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart Health
When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves "We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood Health Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson Health
Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five
isn't bad.
-- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The
average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted
to "Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) Health America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the
calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
-- Mark Twain I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
-- Albert Einstein Health
Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem
mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's
chara Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde "Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
-- Herbert Westren Turnbull Health He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One
cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the
marvelous str Health
I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
-- Henry James A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they
are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
-- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man Health Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family.
-- Navaho saying God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if
he finds her.
-- Benjamin Tillett Health
We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
-- Oscar Wilde "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
-- Albert Einstein He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous Health It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-- Sacha Guitry "Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours." (Dale Health
If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having
passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it.
-- Anonymous A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. Health Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III Health
My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X Icky icky icky icky fKANG zoop-boing n zowzyin...
-- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show 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 The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV Health Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples'
decisions for them?
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All Health
