"One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price. I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur Health Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from
both sides.
-- Margaret Thatcher Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) Health
Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife blah "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner "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 If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf Health Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage,
he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it.
-- Helen Roland He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake Health
Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e 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 We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
-- Isaac B. Singer Health If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
-- James McNeill Whistler A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau Health
blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had
never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
-- Orison Swett Marden "Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) Health "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." (Alexander Pope) Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet Health
You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham 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 "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) Health The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass
produced with unskilled labor.
-- Wernher von Braun Health
"We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all
the time. That would be hypocrisy.
-- Oscar Wilde "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) "To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Health Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) "And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to Health
"In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute
for life.
-- Andrew Brown Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon Health Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon 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 Health
With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly good I thee endow.
-- Wedding Vow, Book of Common Prayer A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it;
whenever you're right, shut up.
-- Ogden Nash Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Health There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf Health
We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were
reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing,
and Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
- Samuel Palmer It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and
discipline.
-- Michel de Montaigne America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee Health A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire "Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He
experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of
optic Health
Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet
not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
-- François de La Rouch Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass
produced with unskilled labor.
-- Wernher von Braun "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) "No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree." (Lee Rudolph) The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde Health Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) Health
Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
-- Woody Allen A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
- Robert Orben "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) Health No other success can compensate for failure in the home.
-- David O. McKay, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Advice to parents at General Conference of he
LDS Church, April, 1964 The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Health
