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We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
-- Isaac B. Singer A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
-- Joseph Addison "Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures--in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together." Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the
time by watching the second hand of a clock.
-- Ben Hecht "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Health There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!
-- Calvin Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Health
"I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio." (Joan Rivers) "A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it." (Claude Rains, as Mr. Dryden, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick Health Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of
responsibility at the other.
-- Ronald Reagan, Saturday Evening Post, 1965 "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) Health
Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
-- Samuel Johnson All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be
paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's
life To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of
your life.
-- Abbie M. Dale A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer Health The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
-- Mae West Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln Health
Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin Go away...I'm alright.
-- H. G. Wells, dying words I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again.
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw Health True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways
to be, you know that there are...
-- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere Health
Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
automobile.
-- Billy Sunday Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
-- George Saunders - last words What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart Health Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) "You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 Health
A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore:
? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its
duties.
? Work Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov Health "Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wit If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
-- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
-- Roger Babson Health
My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't
have done.
-- Malcolm Forbes All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Health The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.
-- Mark Twain Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
-- Hoshang N. Akhtar Golf is a good walk spoiled.
-- Mark Twain Health
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 Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness
are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser
tha I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin Health "See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... Health
We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Borge The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 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 "Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) Health A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
-- Edgar Watson Howe Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
existence.
-- Sydney Smith I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
-- Nathan Hale Health
"Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III ... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more
aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since
Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.
-- John Murray Health You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you
can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist.
-- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
newspapers.
-- Thomas Jefferson Health
I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique
added to the armamentarium of political inquiry. Anyone who cannot negotiate Chi squares,
assess randomi I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw Health It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
-- Elvis Presley Health
