Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
-- Roger Simon Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner Health To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of
something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than
cocaine.
Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne Health
"We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. Just
flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
-- H. L. Mencken Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder Health Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
-- Roger Babson "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) Health
To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it,
there will be a fish.
-- Ovid "In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. Health Never moon a werewolf.
-- Mike Binder Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
-- Plutarch I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb Health
It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
-- Robert A. Humphrey I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
-- Walt Disney Health Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt Health
That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
-- Publilius Syrus "Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Health Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
-- G. K. Chesterton "I think people resist freedom because they're afraid of the unknown. But it's ironic....That unknown was once very well known. It's where are souls belong....The only solution is to confront them--co "In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat." (Robert Byrne) Health
The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the
slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional
convi To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it;
whenever you're right, shut up.
-- Ogden Nash It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed.
They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position.
-- John Hogan, Commonwealth May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. Health There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Health
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 We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no
religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear
of "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman Health I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
car.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau Just buy a box of popcorn and a Coca-Cola and sit back and watch.
-- James Carville, Clinton advisor, offering advice for Democrats on the term-limits vote in the
House Health
I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman Health They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
-- Antonio Porchi There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson Health
To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One
cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the
marvelous str We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun 'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide Health Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. Health
Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents "Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince Health Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain 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 Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless Health
Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying Health 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 Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: "Give little, give seldom, and above all,
give grudgingly." Otherwise, what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of
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