If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard
Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3 "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Mental Health Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Anonymous Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) Mental Health
Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein Mental Health Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have
had any experience with them.
-- H. L. Mencken "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Mental Health
Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler 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 It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper Mental Health If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
-- Red Buttons Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying Mental Health
"To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement
speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have
th "I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston Mental Health Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a
philosopher.
- Socrates All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde Mental Health
Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau "People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) Mental Health Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal "In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) Mental Health
I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe "For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each
other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's
nerves Mental Health Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.
-- General Douglas MacArthur Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell Mental Health
Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one "Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute
for life.
-- Andrew Brown This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more
they possess.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Mental Health "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
-- Sioux Indian Prayer Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken Mental Health
Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would
have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I
didn' What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Mental Health As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli Mental Health
There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President Mental Health Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Mental Health
We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we
respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
-- H. L. Mencken Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe I don't feel good.
-- Luther Burbank, dying words "Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain Mental Health There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell Mental Health
Well, I think that it's a- it's had some difficult times but I think we have- we, I think, have been able
to make some very good progress and it's- I would say that it's- it's- it's delightful that w Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell 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 "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) 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 Mental Health One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if
possible, speak a few reasonable words.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-- Dorothy Parker "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) Mental Health
