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Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway Health "The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. Health
"Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wit I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I
believed in liberals...
-- G. K. Chesterton I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein Health The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because
generally they are the same people.
-- G. K. Chesterton I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including:
* Both of your socks should always be the same color
* Or they should at least both be fairly dark
-- Dave Barry I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I
believed in liberals...
-- G. K. Chesterton Health
They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
-- Anonymous Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
- Sir Winston Churchill "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper Health Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something
different.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne Health
A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward "I should reproach him for not giving us enough evidence." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970, what he would say to God if they 'met') Health I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is
merely a good excuse not to play football.
-- Fran Lebowitz Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
-- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking
campaign Health
There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) 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? "In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." (Eric Hoffer) "The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) Health Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand Health
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France Health "From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) Health
There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and
illiterate sport fishermen.
-- P. J. O'Rourke A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery Health Spinster: A bachelor's wife. The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth
shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.
-- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) Health
Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël Health "I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats." (Woody Allen, in regard to the KKK) Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol Health
There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
-- Oscar Wilde "If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that
M&Ms really do melt in your hand...
-- Peter Oakley "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) "Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) Health "Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous 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. Health
A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.
-- Londo Molari All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein Health The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique
added to the armamentarium of political inquiry. Anyone who cannot negotiate Chi squares,
assess randomi Health
To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu Icky icky icky icky fKANG zoop-boing n zowzyin...
-- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of
humor is just common sense, dancing.
-- Clive James We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow Health Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 "For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) Health
