Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) National Health Service "I think people resist freedom because they're afraid of the unknown. But it's ironic....That unknown was once very well known. It's where are souls belong....The only solution is to confront them--co In medieval times, people thought that evil spirits could enter a person through an open mouth.
These days they more often leave that way.
-- David Deckert There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde National Health Service
Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of
fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality
and "This is the first age that's paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one." (Arthur C. Clarke) Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
-- Anonymous Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a
thing to be acheived.
-- William Jennings Bryant blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) National Health Service Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand National Health Service
Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) National Health Service I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The
rest is trust.
-- Nanette Newman, British actress Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would not live forever, because
we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live
forever, National Health Service
Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
-- Gertrude Stein, dying words Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun National Health Service Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of
fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality
and "It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality." (Francois Sagan) Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land National Health Service
Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin "One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-- Irwin Corey blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) "When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." (Friedrich Wilhelm Ni National Health Service "We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) National Health Service
The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld National Health Service Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by
trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by l National Health Service
Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.
-- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995 "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard "People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) National Health Service The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.
-- Mark Twain "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back.
-- Henny Youngman National Health Service
Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. 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 Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call
me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
-- Rebecca West, Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx National Health Service If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
-- Lily Tomlin Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde National Health Service
The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac "The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those
little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.
-- General Douglas MacArthur National Health Service Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
-- Igor Stravinsky My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.
-- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995 National Health Service
Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
-- Lord Dewar You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
write better.
- A. J. Liebling 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 Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The
premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool.
-- Kelvin Throop I National Health Service The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and
tomorrow aint as bad as it seems.
-- Billy Joel Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken National Health Service
Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. National Health Service One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if
possible, speak a few reasonable words.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up
between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever.
-- Virginia Woolf National Health Service
