Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
happen to him.
-- John Barrymore - last words It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde Health Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
-- Robert M. Pirsig The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy
the waking hours much more.
-- Woody Allen Health
LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the
influences under which he incurred the disorder... It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the
physician Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
-- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 "No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree." (Lee Rudolph) We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) Health "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous 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. If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
-- George Clemenceau I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
-- Francois-Auguste Rodin, when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) Health "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol Health
"If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward Health "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins Health
There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins [You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
-- Anonymous A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted
by a little physical antipathy.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Health I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President "Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
-- Buckminster Health
I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up
between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever.
-- Virginia Woolf There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the
instrument plays itself.
-- Johann Sebastian Bach Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 Health "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute
for life.
-- Andrew Brown 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 Health
In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! "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 "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
-- George Saunders - last words Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde Health "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." (Albert Einstein) "That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, Health
Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain Health Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent
crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry
inspe That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been
all along.
-- Madeleine L'Engle Health
The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous Health In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren Health
"I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
-- Charles Pierce Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does
come, we no longer exist.
-- Epicurus Health The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism. --Heidi Hartmann [The Unhappy May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed Health
One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford "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) Health Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill Health
