A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
-- Joseph Addison Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
-- Albert Einstein Health Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana We can say 'Peace on Earth,' we can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have
not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us, then it will not be.
-- Betty Shabazz Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork
picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
-- Tom Stoppard Health
I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.
-- David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes. 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 To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never
be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
-- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to 2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time.
-- inside of a Pepsi cap Health Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes
your wife.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton Health
Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes
some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny.
-- George Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who,
doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a
machi Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of
genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Health If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they
study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.
-- Gerald Early, writer, baseball do A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West Health
"The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) 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 Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) Health Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain
terrible.
-- Jean Kerr "Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k Health
This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away,
the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard "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) Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team Health Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances
continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the
distance Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle No other success can compensate for failure in the home.
-- David O. McKay, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Advice to parents at General Conference of he
LDS Church, April, 1964 Health
He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West Correction: Instead of being arrested, as we stated, for kicking his wife down a flight of stairs and hurling a lighted kerosene lamp after her, the Rev. James P. Wellman died unmarried four years ago "I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou "We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins Health A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe Health
After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely
pleased to announce the appointment of David Steele to the post.
-- Philip Streifer, Superintendent He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain Health Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard "A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm Health
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 Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh "We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li the social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for
all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation.
-- Peter "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) Health "If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) "In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. Health
It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is
the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be
cr One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby
see only a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney and continue on their way.
-- Vincent Van Gogh Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover Health But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin 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 Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it.
And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.
-- George Bus In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been
widely regarded as a bad move.
-- Douglas Adams Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The
gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
-- Thomas Arnold Bennet Health Anything too stupid to be said, is sung.
-- Voltaire Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the
calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
-- Mark Twain Health
Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason Establishing yourself, furnishing a house, building up a comfortable existence, and having that menace hanging over your head all the time - no, I prefer to live in hotels, cafés, just passing through The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola Health I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
-- Mother Teresa "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.
-- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 Health
