For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Complementary and Alternative "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept
me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't
everythin I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal Complementary and Alternative
My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
-- Carl Zwanzig Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
- Paul Erdos "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) Complementary and Alternative The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One
cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the
marvelous str 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 fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) Complementary and Alternative
Study men, not historians.
-- Harry Truman How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law "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) Complementary and Alternative "Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) 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 Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley Complementary and Alternative
There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware;
those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software.
-- Unknown author, Levitating T Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not
mean his maker, but himself.
-- Dean Inge And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. Complementary and Alternative The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky Complementary and Alternative
America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee Vote early and vote often.
- Al Capone "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) "I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe "Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) Complementary and Alternative Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with
the powerful, not to be neutral.
-- Paulo Freire "Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it "Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) Complementary and Alternative
God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost "The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) Women's liberationists spread the word that...the only peaceful family is one in which either the
wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous.
-- R. Emmett Tyell, The Liberal Crack-Up, 1984 May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. Complementary and Alternative If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't
take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates...
-- Anonymous Complementary and Alternative
Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it
is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is
the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be
cr I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and
members of the Senate.
-- Dan Quayle, Former Vice-President Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.
- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life Complementary and Alternative "The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Complementary and Alternative
"I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-- Samuel Butler You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way
of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all Complementary and Alternative I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and
members of the Senate.
-- Dan Quayle, Former Vice-President "Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) "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) Complementary and Alternative
Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
-- Oscar Wilde I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery
increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control
futur Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. Complementary and Alternative It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by
the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off!
-- Douglas Jerold, 1858 Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx The west wasn't won on salad.
-- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 Complementary and Alternative
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
- Bertrand Russell
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A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those
little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from
both sides.
-- Margaret Thatcher Complementary and Alternative Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx "In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) Complementary and Alternative
To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of
your life.
-- Abbie M. Dale "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous We can say 'Peace on Earth,' we can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have
not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us, then it will not be.
-- Betty Shabazz Complementary and Alternative The west wasn't won on salad.
-- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger "One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) Complementary and Alternative
