The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." (Alexander Pope) ...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Guitry 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 Health In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson 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. "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) Health
Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "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) Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol Health "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson "The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) Health
"I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford Health UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian Health
All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house
as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
-- Homer, Odyssey, ninth century The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf Study men, not historians.
-- Harry Truman In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott Health In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) Health
Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
-- Albert Einstein I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens Health "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." (Mark Twain) Health
Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law Remember your dreams.
-- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Guitry Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon Health "I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin 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 Health
The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those
little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
bureaucracy won't.
-- Hyman Rickover Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
-- Martin Mull Health The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
-- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 "When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." (Friedrich Wilhelm Ni Health
"In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 We are the echo of the future.
-- W. S. Merwin Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin Health You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain "People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) "No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree." (Lee Rudolph) Health
"Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Facts are the enemy of truth.
- Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Steven Wright "I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) Health If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue.
-- Anonymous Health
In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
-- Helen Rowland Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 "I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe Health Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree
to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full
of grac History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) Health
Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.
-- Londo Molari The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold "Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em." (William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, II:5) Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
-- Albert Einstein Health Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) Health
