The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best
to become the best you are capable of becoming.
-- John R. Wooden, Practical Modern Basketball Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde Health The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I
was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper.
-- Smith & Jones My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who
take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
-- INDIRA Health
What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
-- Gertrude Stein, dying words Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman Health Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle
enough of them.
-- Flannery O'Connor Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw Health
Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not
impress the neighbors as being very much.
-- Zora Neale Hurston "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for
themselves.
-- F. Emerson Andrews If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud Health An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One
looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our
human When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without
feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex,
the ugl Health
Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is
thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.
-- Henry Wadsworth Lo Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
-- Martin Mull Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn
themselves to a life of vinegar.
-- Countess of Blessington 2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time.
-- inside of a Pepsi cap Health While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one
of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
-- George Bernard Shaw When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his ownself in his own hands. Like water. And if he
opens his fingers then- he needn't hope to find himself again.
-- Robert Bolt from A Man For All Seas Health
During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Health Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Health
If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-- Anonymous It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw Health Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger Health
Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud "I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos--especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom ... Rather than starting inside, I start ou >From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some
day I intend reading it.
-- Groucho Marx In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard Health My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin 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 Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) "Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected..." (Chuck Jones) Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet Health An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for
love is measured by fullness, not by reception.
-- Harold Loukes "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best
to become the best you are capable of becoming.
-- John R. Wooden, Practical Modern Basketball Health
... 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
"I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H.L. Mencken He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson Health "Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should
live honourably.
-- Kant, Immanuel A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey Health
Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want,
and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.
-- Fred Astaire All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen
closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping.
-- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) Health Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man
will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
-- Henry Ford I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" Health
If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I ask
is a chance."
-- Anon. Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana "Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) Health The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause
we believe to be just.
-- Abraham Lincoln My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. Health
