The child is the father of the man.
-- William Wordsworth I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is
that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one.
-- Anonymous Health There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde I didn't accept it. I received it.
-- Richard Allen, National Security Advisor to President Reagan, explaining the $1000 in cash and
two watches he was given by two Japanese journalists after he hel The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Health
Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett I'll sleep when I'm dead.
- Warren Zevon Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Health "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up
something appropriate and do it.
-- E. W. Howe Health
It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some
simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion.
-- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) 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 Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
-- M. Hirschfield Health Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp Health
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point Health Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm 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 Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu Health
The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos 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 I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Health Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford Health
There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and
discipline.
-- Michel de Montaigne When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his
life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.
-- Francois Cavanna Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
-- Samuel Butler I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to
me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
-- Lucille Ball Health How could they tell?
-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical
deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
-- Albert Einstein Health
"Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) "If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair." (Samuel Johnson) 'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of
suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room.
-- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
-- Sioux Indian Prayer Health Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle Health
He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde Health Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
wastes to Third Wo Health
Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles How could they tell?
-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the
writing will be just as it should be.
-- Mark Twain Health When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a
holding pattern over Philadelphia.
-- Judith Viorst Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
chastisement.
-- Ernest Dimnet Health
"Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
-- M. Hirschfield Health I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door
and just visit now and then.
-- Katharine Hepburn Health
"My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go." (Oscar Wilde, his last recorded words) There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-- Gilda Radner "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 Health Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder Health
