"I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain
as marijuana...The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two, but can't
remember what Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
-- Sigmund Freud Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. Complementary and Alternative When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of
responsibility at the other.
-- Ronald Reagan, Saturday Evening Post, 1965 Complementary and Alternative
It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
-- Neils Bohr Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
- George Washington Carver Complementary and Alternative Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
-- Adela Rogers St. John Complementary and Alternative
"All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
-- George Saunders - last words "I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo Complementary and Alternative We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President "To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Complementary and Alternative
"I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free." (Walker Percy, The Moviegoer) A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no
religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear
of The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of
them, it's considered to be your style.
-- Fred Astaire Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Complementary and Alternative If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live Complementary and Alternative
The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure Complementary and Alternative "Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." (Gertrude Stein) I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.
-- David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes. "When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wro Complementary and Alternative
Not to anticipate is already to moan.
-- Leonardo da Vinci The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) Complementary and Alternative "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) Health food makes me sick.
-- Calvin Trillin Complementary and Alternative
Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) "Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss." (Hal Holbrook, Wallstreet) This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire Complementary and Alternative The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going
to make fun of you.
-- Woody Allen The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.
-- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the
House Bank scandal Complementary and Alternative
Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly "Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and
joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not
as Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
-- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn Complementary and Alternative If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best
to become the best you are capable of becoming.
-- John R. Wooden, Practical Modern Basketball Complementary and Alternative
"Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
-- George Jean Nathan Complementary and Alternative The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
-- Tom Robbins Complementary and Alternative
"Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference
between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I
don't know and Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard Complementary and Alternative Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above
weakness All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) Complementary and Alternative
The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.
-- Londo Molari A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
-- Christopher Morley "It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W Complementary and Alternative "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince Complementary and Alternative
