Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and
joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not
as "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) 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 Unha "It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron Health The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
-- Bhagava Gita No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) Health
"Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a
holding pattern over Philadelphia.
-- Judith Viorst "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) Health "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
is.
-- Arnold Bennett "To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Health
Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for
themselves.
-- F. Emerson Andrews Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are
capable of being.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Health What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
-- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm Health
Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and
hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in
Heaven.
-- P. J Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun "That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, Health Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been
widely regarded as a bad move.
-- Douglas Adams "Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) Health
Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 "Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." (Dave Barry) It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince "The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) Health The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning
there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have
people all 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 "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler Health He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Health
"There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips." (Elsa Lanchester) "Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in
charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
-- Hen Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken Health "I put on an act sometimes, and people think I'm insensitive. Really, it's like a kind of armor because I'm too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I' "Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wit I still live.
-- Daniel Webster, dying words Health
Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
-- Maya Angelou We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the
source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity,
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-- Edward H. Land Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl Every flower must grow through dirt.
-- Anonymous Health
When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn Health The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
- Lucille S. Harper I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet
not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
-- François de La Rouch Health
Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically,
ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion.
-- Fred Rogers, parody of "Row, row, row your boa The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live Health Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle "In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat." (Robert Byrne) Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.
- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life Health
In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. "For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
- Karl Wallenda There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at
heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels,
upon the lev "Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details." (Andy Warhol, America, 1985) Health "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) "Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley Health
