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"Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had
never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
-- Orison Swett Marden The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce
intelligence.
-- Philo Vance All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein "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, ignorance, g Mental Health "Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) "I should reproach him for not giving us enough evidence." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970, what he would say to God if they 'met') The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx Mental Health
I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau Well, I think that it's a- it's had some difficult times but I think we have- we, I think, have been able
to make some very good progress and it's- I would say that it's- it's- it's delightful that w "We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses Mental Health There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "Drugs have done a lot of good. A lot of good songs have been written. 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. 'Dark Side of the Moon?' 100 dead kids. At least that many were conceived by people listening 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 Mental Health
Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
-- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts,
in living color, you're about to see another first -- an attempted suicide.
-- Chris Hubbock, who sh History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) Mental Health It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe "I offer images; I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached ... But, we can only open the doors. We can't drag people through. I can't free them unless they want to be free--more than any "Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures--in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together." Mental Health
"Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from
both sides.
-- Margaret Thatcher 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. Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
-- Igor Stravinsky Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. Mental Health "Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon Mental Health
"A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
-- Rita Rudner Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. Mental Health "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie "Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) Mental Health
If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you
a hundre Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.
-- Barbara Bush, first lady, 1989 Mental Health "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) "A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it." (Claude Rains, as Mr. Dryden, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) ... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more
aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since
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"If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
-- Antonio Porchi He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
-- J. Heller 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 God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if
he finds her.
-- Benjamin Tillett Mental Health You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point Mental Health
Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith Mental Health The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne Mental Health
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 Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
-- Chekhov Jake liked his women the way he liked his kiwi fruit: sweet yet tart, firm-fleshed yet yielding to the
touch, and covered with short brown fuzzy hair.
-- Jonathan S. Haas Mental Health I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy.
-- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) Mental Health
A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer "In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and
retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things!
-- Tom Lehrer Mental Health I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, "I'd like some fries." The girl at the counter said,
"Would you like some fries with that?"
-- Jay Leno If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would
be able to endure it.
-- Schopenhauer There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins Mental Health
Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West Mental Health The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
-- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck Mental Health
