"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) "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) blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Health By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you
will become a philosopher.
-- Socrates To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch Health
A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find
that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our
pain Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. "Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
definition, is unassailable.
-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 Health The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green Health
Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the
custom of shaving.
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James Health I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their
powers as a State depend.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Health
Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton Health I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken Health
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 "Think off-center." (George Carlin) Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and
inex Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle Health Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken 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 What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler Health
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. Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters Health "People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold." (Richard Thalheimer, president, The Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack Health
blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can
only read the title.
-- Virginia Woolf "Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody Health A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your
girdle when your hips stick.
-- Ogden Nash Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) Health
It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing. With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln "And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
-- George Saunders - last words Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning Health Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
-- Kenneth H. Blanchard A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes Health
There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the
instrument plays itself.
-- Johann Sebastian Bach Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 "Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender Health Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
coattails.
-- Clarence Darrow I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-- Dorothy Parker Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little Health
"I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
-- Oscar Wilde, dying words If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician Health "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein Health
My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely
pleased to announce the appointment of David Steele to the post.
-- Philip Streifer, Superintendent Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as
saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball.
-- Deborah Tan Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of
suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room.
-- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a
thing to be acheived.
-- William Jennings Bryant Health Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the
lessons that history has to teach.
-- Aldous Huxley Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous Health
