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It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that
can be shot when it breaks down.
-- Russell Baker "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) Health Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx Health
Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) Health The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take
her off his hands.
-- Sacha Guitry Health
"Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but
as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!"
-- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco "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) Health Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
-- Tom Robbins I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) Health
"A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. 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 woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Health "People drag their progeny around with them like a ball and chain, like some terrible deadweight that hinders their every move - and that, as often as not, effectively winds up killing them." (Michel To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
--Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra Health
"Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
- Bill Hirst That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
-- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking
campaign Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-- Ambrose Bierce Health "Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken 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 Health
Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine "Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it." (Colin Powell) Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-- Anonymous The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and
discipline.
-- Michel de Montaigne Health "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) "Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Health
If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
-- Lily Tomlin To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi "Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. Health "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it.
And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.
-- George Bus Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi Health
It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are
romantic dreamers and actually believe that estrogenic skin cream must do something or they
couldn't cha All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee.
-- Anonymous Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler Health I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things.
-- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
-- Pablo Picasso Health
"I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs
long enough."
-- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Health Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
-- Anonymous Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde Health
Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family.
-- Navaho saying 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 easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
-- Vladimir Nabokov "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) Health
As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein Dear Mrs, Mr, Miss, or Mr and Mrs Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action. -- C Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. Health After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely
pleased to announce the appointment of David Steele to the post.
-- Philip Streifer, Superintendent "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Weaseling out of things is good. It's what separates us from the other animals....except weasels.
-- Homer Simpson, character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show Health
