Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does
come, we no longer exist.
-- Epicurus Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
-- Oscar Wilde "Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) Health Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw Health
There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another
to the world.
-- Antonio Machado Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words
that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
-- Alexander Pope Health "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have
had any experience with them.
-- H. L. Mencken "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) Health
The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero In the end, everything is a gag.
- Charlie Chaplin The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
-- Robert M. Pirsig I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) Health Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
automobile.
-- Billy Sunday I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
-- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 Health
A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) Health "Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
- George Bernard Shaw Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld Health
I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Tear open packet, unfold and use.
-- Directions on moist towelette package Health History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are.
-- Gore Vidal We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we
respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
-- H. L. Mencken Health
Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-- Ambrose Bierce Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it,
Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me
de Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window.
You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house.
-- Jean Ke "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) Health Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does
not change his mind.
-- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) Health
Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
-- Herbert Westren Turnbull It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like
a black mistake.
-- D. H. Lawrence A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem Health I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm
upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in
the palm Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen Health
"Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle "There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-- ee cummings Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
-- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act i. Sc. 1. Health Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
-- Herbert Westren Turnbull Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman Health
I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
-- Walt Disney It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite
without any wish to act.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Health Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken Health
To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig
deep into the actual and get something out of that - this doubtless is the right way to live.
-- H In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is
simply one of those things which happen from time to time.
-- Edward P. Tryon He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that
can be shot when it breaks down.
-- Russell Baker I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein Health Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison "If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard
Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3 Health
Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it
doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever
sea If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood Health The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
-- Indigo Girls, song lyric "Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's
age.
-- Modern Maturity Health
