Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
the workmanship.
-- John Renmerde Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be
said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot
successfully A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli Health The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael Health
You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room
enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.
-- Fred Allen A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and
therefore congenial to it.
-- G. K. Chesterton Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada Health "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) "It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) Health
Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Anonymous Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane Health "God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein Health
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. Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree
to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full
of grac "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Health .. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over
myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long
per "I've never let my school interfere with my education." (Mark Twain) A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Health
Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll Health When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the
top.
-- Ed Abbey A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words
that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
-- Alexander Pope Health
blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
-- Albert Einstein "Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Health "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having
passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it.
-- Anonymous "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) Health
There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be
said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot
successfully Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken "Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain Health Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not
impress the neighbors as being very much.
-- Zora Neale Hurston Health
Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison May you never leave your marriage alive. A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham Health If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
-- Lily Tomlin There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics a Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig Health
Guys are lucky because they get to grow mustaches. I wish I could. It's like having a little pet for
your face.
-- Anita Wise Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
- Lucille S. Harper You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you
can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist.
-- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern Health "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) "If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. Health
Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we
were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
-- John Stuart Mill Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with
the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover,
Health A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy "Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." (Dave Barry) Health
I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call
me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
-- Rebecca West, I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato Health When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous Health
