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Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if
he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more
experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat
soiled or torn? I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) Health Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
-- Polish proverb 'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
-- Virginia Woolf 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) He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take
what I have to give.
-- Cass Daley Health If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature
intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times
worse tha Health
The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce
intelligence.
-- Philo Vance Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good
results: drag behind car through puddles, blow-dry on roofrack.
-- Laundry instructions on a shirt Health Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy 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 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 Health
I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
-- Jules Renard Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest Health "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Health
There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to
realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and
grie "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) Health The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to
heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need
more supervision.
-- Lynn The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have
to shave twice a day.
-- Adlai Stevenson The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy Health
For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have
had any experience with them.
-- H. L. Mencken "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde Just buy a box of popcorn and a Coca-Cola and sit back and watch.
-- James Carville, Clinton advisor, offering advice for Democrats on the term-limits vote in the
House Health He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley Health
And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) "Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra) When Baby's cries grew hard to bear I popped him in the Frigidaire. I never would have done so if
I'd known that he'd be frozen stiff. My wife said, "George, I'm so unhappy! Our darling's now
comple Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf Health "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) "Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day." (Ali bin And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song Health
In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
-- Sidney Goff Health Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they
are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
-- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. Health
In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott "Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes
in search of martyrdom is that the former expresses his idea most fully in death while the latter
really Health I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes
some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny.
-- George The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous Health
Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham "Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
-- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Health If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke Health
The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any
antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
-- Alfred Hitchcock Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the
custom of shaving.
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Health No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country
could do under first-class management.
-- Senator Soaper If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing Health
