I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) Health 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 man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) Health
"Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) 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 In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. The child is the father of the man.
-- William Wordsworth If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. Health He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're
the boss."
-- Anonymous Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
-- Samuel Butler Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Health
"A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) 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 When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West Health Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau Health
Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the
second, "For my best friend."
-- Anonymous Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they
can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and
stupid from Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) Health "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
-- Adela Rogers St. John Health
What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already
were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
-- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 Health There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the
instrument plays itself.
-- Johann Sebastian Bach If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde Health
The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because
generally they are the same people.
-- G. K. Chesterton "College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright Health Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a
brand new ending.
-- Anonymous A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
-- Sidney Goff May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm
upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in
the palm Health
"It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it
doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever
sea A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference
between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I
don't know and "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Health Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 Beginning in February 1976 your assistance benefits will be discontinued ... Reason: it has been
reported to our office that you expired on January 1, 1976.
-- excerpt from a letter, Illinois Depart Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock Health
"The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) "That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) "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 Health Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley Health
Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage
he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it.
-- Anon. I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte Health Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu Health
The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical
deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
-- Albert Einstein Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
-- Lord Dewar I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
-- Mother Teresa Health If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. "Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours." (Dale "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 Health
Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
-- George Saunders - last words "Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
and bought jewelry.
-- Rita Rudner Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde Health A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan Health
