"Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored..." (Herman Melville, A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.
-- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the
House Bank scandal In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman Health Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Health
The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Health The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? Health
Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
chastisement.
-- Ernest Dimnet We are the echo of the future.
-- W. S. Merwin I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and
illiterate sport fishermen.
-- P. J. O'Rourke It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers Health The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
-- Gloria Leonard Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the
commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete
answer. In fact, women's total ins Health
"Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Health Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature
machine gun.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell Health
Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
-- Charles Pierce Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you
underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-- Abraham Lincoln Health Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) Health
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Health Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
-- M. Hirschfield Health
He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine; as he
who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me.
-- Thomas Jefferson ...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us.
-- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius "Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation." (Larry Flynt) Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge Health The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau "I'll endorse with my name any of the following; clothing AC-DC, cigarettes, small tapes, sound equipment, ROCK N' ROLL RECORDS, anything, film, and film equipment, Food, Helium, Whips, MONEY!!" (And The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald Health
The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to
contact us.
-- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes In the end, everything is a gag.
- Charlie Chaplin 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 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 What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright Health 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 "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Health
Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall Health Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the
time by watching the second hand of a clock.
-- Ben Hecht "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana Health
blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge Health We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman "By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) Health
I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli "Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
-- Ambrose Bierce Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar Health The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
-- Indigo Girls, song lyric America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
-- Ernest Hemingway Health
