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Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
-- Vince Lombardi We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to
help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to
comfort us along Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens Health There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West Health
The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal Guys are lucky because they get to grow mustaches. I wish I could. It's like having a little pet for
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-- Anita Wise Health "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) Health
Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
-- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) Health Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Louis Berlioz Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. -- Socrates Health
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-- Seen on a bumper sticker Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville We have only one person to blame, and that's each other.
-- Barry Beck, New York Ranger, on who started a fight furing a hockey game Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. Health The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken 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 Health
"A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) Not to anticipate is already to moan.
-- Leonardo da Vinci Health A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any
antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
-- Alfred Hitchcock Use your own best judgment at all times.
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"A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put
over my kitchen table.
-- Rodney Dangerfield "The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) Health When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't
have done.
-- Malcolm Forbes The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Health
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
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is one who can find such a man.
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- Oscar Wilde Health
We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
-- Albert Einstein "Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Health When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Health
All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw Health "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) Health
We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not,
the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms
with The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) Health Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Boies Penrose, 1931 "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) Health
Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to
finish without knowing what you have written.
-- Jean Jacques Rousseau Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
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- Von Clausewitz When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall
looking frantic.
-- Steven Wright Health
