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 They were doing a full back shot of me in a swimsuit and I thought, Oh my God, I have to be so
brave. See, every woman hates herself from behind.
-- Cindy Crawford, supermodel It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman "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) There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and
inex Health After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
- Robert Orben Health
"The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) "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-) Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing
they die earlier.
-- H. L. Mencken Health Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
-- John Tudor Beginning in February 1976 your assistance benefits will be discontinued ... Reason: it has been
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-- excerpt from a letter, Illinois Depart Health
It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and
remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't
work and the What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
-- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 Health It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of
mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
-- Rita Mae Brown How could they tell?
-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died Health
I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) Health food makes me sick.
-- Calvin Trillin "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst "In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) Health A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) Health
An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for
love is measured by fullness, not by reception.
-- Harold Loukes "I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never
were, and ask why not?
-- Robert Francis Kennedy Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper Health The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy "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) "Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) Health
The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it.
-- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
-- Lily Tomlin When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is
when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.
-- Marcel Achard Health More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not
know what to create.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset Health
If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong
and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny
is but th I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim
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-- Gen. George Health "Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The
premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool.
-- Kelvin Throop I Health
He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw Health "I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly Health
Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) "We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell "Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) Health Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James Health
If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
-- Elbert Hubbard "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all
I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it."
-- Jerry Seinfeld "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) Health I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
and bought jewelry.
-- Rita Rudner 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 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
Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon "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 We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Health
