The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
newspapers.
-- Thomas Jefferson Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde Health If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams "Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) Health
"Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
-- Woodrow Wyatt blah "You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt Health "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell Health
We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we
can do... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes.
-- Cybi If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
-- Johnny Carson Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters Health I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anonymous Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one.
-- Oscar Levant, to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee Health
"Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
-- Robert A. Humphrey Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin Health Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best
to become the best you are capable of becoming.
-- John R. Wooden, Practical Modern Basketball Health
"A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) "I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of
our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
-- John Adams "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) Health "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton "The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi Health
"The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept
me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't
everythin It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way
to bet.
-- Damon Runyan "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) Health One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby
see only a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney and continue on their way.
-- Vincent Van Gogh "I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) "When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wro Health
Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little
plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.
-- Ha Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one
of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
-- George Bernard Shaw Health 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 All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery
increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control
futur Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais Health
"Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not
know what to create.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Health 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 What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
-- Gertrude Stein, dying words The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James Health
A White House well filled, a little peanut field well tilled, and a wife who will go to the Bronx are
great riches.
-- Poor Jimmy's Almanac Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
reputation.
-- Oscar Wilde A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Guitry "Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) Health "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh Health
By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
a fortune "Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k "In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves
great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates
the There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde Health Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins 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 It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw Health
Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
-- Albert Einstein I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again.
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show What's new? Most of my wife. Health There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's
being off the network.
-- Guy Almes It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr Health
