Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) "Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon Health "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown Health
We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and
inex Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George bernard Shaw 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 "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) Health A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that
no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
-- Paul Dirac Health
"Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
a fortune Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-- Carl Gustav Jung Health A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The
rest is trust.
-- Nanette Newman, British actress The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Health
There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson 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) Health There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
-- Neils Bohr No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac "In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) Health
If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
-- Scott Adams "Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large
organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.
-- Dave Barry Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.
-- King George V Health "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) Health
"Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw Health A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? Health
A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. "Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
-- Rory Bremner "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle Health We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution,
of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always
be Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would
be doing if he were alive today?
1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War.
2) Advising the President.
3) D The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not,
the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms
with Health
It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
-- Henry James Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle "The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) Health The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is
that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one.
-- Anonymous Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as
saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball.
-- Deborah Tan Health
The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-- ee cummings A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw Health "The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." (George Bernar I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) Health
Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying Health Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet
not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
-- François de La Rouch Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx Health
The nourishment is palatable.
-- Millard Fillmore, dying words "Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) "Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning Health In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves
beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
-- Al Rogers, Global SchoolHouse Netw A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III Health
