"Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
freedom.
-- Albert Einstein To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I Health Man and wife make one fool. The child is the father of the man.
-- William Wordsworth Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
- Robert Frost Health
Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers Health We are the echo of the future.
-- W. S. Merwin Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) Health
This compact disc is made from analog masters recorded without noise reduction. Half the tracks,
in fact, were recorded in a dismal, cheap basement eight-track studio with puddles of water on
the fl Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
- unknown There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's
being off the network.
-- Guy Almes I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward Health If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model.
Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush...
-- Dawn French The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law Health
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 Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a
minute, it's longer than any hour. That is relativity.
-- Albert Einstein The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little Health "Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
-- Colin Wilson Health
Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to
realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and
grie Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley Health "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) Health
Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon "Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) "God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) Health "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics a The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
-- G. K. Chesterton Health
An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating
influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the
commun Health The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe Health
Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be
closed for any other business.
-- Abraham Lincoln Health It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
-- Benjamin Disraeli I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all
the time. That would be hypocrisy.
-- Oscar Wilde The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short Health
"The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him.
-- Cher Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene "It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature
intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times
worse tha Health "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu Health
People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan "Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details." (Andy Warhol, America, 1985) "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman Health Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence Health
Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up
our minds to walk boldly through them.
-- Orison Swett Marden Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
-- Carl Zwanzig Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) Health "Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats Health
