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"That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) The soul is healed by being with children.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevski There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon Health I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
-- Tom Robbins "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) Health
Silence is argument carried out by other means.
- ErnestoCheGuevara I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for
half the money.
-- Arthur Godfrey There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
imagination.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson ... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more
aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since
The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
-- Robert M. Pirsig Health I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 "It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?
-- Michael Meissner Health
It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can
only read the title.
-- Virginia Woolf "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate,
the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
-- Rainer Maria Ril "Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." (Dylan Thomas) Health The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the
purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
-- Anatole France Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 Health
The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I
was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper.
-- Smith & Jones Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
-- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating
influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the
commun If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. Health "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) 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 Health
There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and
discipline.
-- Michel de Montaigne May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. "I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio." (Joan Rivers) There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens Health 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 "If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you t Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford Health
We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
-- Woodrow Wyatt Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
-- Tom Robbins then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana 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 Health Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find
out how to do it.
-- Theodore Roosevelt "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary
to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.'
-- Bierce, A Health
You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu Health Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) Health
Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
-- Oscar Wilde The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its
prime function of looking forward.
-- Margaret Fairless Barber Health Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence 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 Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure Health
In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not
allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating,
stealing, Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere Health 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 Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson Health
If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model.
Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush...
-- Dawn French Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
-- Woody Allen In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Health We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
- Robert Frost Health
"All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu Health We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
-- Isaac B. Singer There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell Health
