I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
-- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
-- Buck Henry Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) Health Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra Health
He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that 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 When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person that loves you
enough chance to love you enough.
-- Dinah Shore It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Mark Twain Health I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and
members of the Senate.
-- Dan Quayle, Former Vice-President My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein Health
Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows
how to make us disobedient.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 "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) Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
-- Bhagava Gita Health "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) 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 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 Health
"A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the
table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the
disg Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing
matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.
-- Amy Bloom Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
-- Anonymous Health "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
-- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making Health
"Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov "Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) Health 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 Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous "In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) Health
Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room
enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.
-- Fred Allen "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) 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 "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Health "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) "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams Health
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your
thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be.
-- Richard Mitchell, from Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
day into your answers.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton Health An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for
love is measured by fullness, not by reception.
-- Harold Loukes "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." All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it
is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer Health
"In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings "A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard Health The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than
the procreation of children.
-- Thornton Wilder Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 Health
Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
-- Sigmund Freud Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Health The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort I don't think I'll get married again. I'll just find a woman I don't like and give her a house.
-- Lewis Grizzard The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola Health
Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle 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 His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin Health 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. "Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken Health
Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the
time by watching the second hand of a clock.
-- Ben Hecht It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous 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 Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.
-- General Douglas MacArthur In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost Health The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and
hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in
Heaven.
-- P. J Health
