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Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more
experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat
soiled or torn? To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West 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 Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous Health As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we
can do... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes.
-- Cybi Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw Health
Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and
discipline.
-- Michel de Montaigne Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy Health This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov 2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time.
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"I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Health Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken Health
This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr "Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana Health Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
-- Winston Churchill Health
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 I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx Health Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 "Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) Health
A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.
-- King George V Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau Health Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
- Sir Winston Churchill Health
Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) 'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith Health Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken 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. I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher 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. A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There
are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's
reall I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian Health This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper "I've never let my school interfere with my education." (Mark Twain) The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford Health
"I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing
changes and yet everything is completely different.
-- Aldous Huxley "In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat." (Robert Byrne) University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger Health The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) "Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) Health
We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little
plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.
-- Ha History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
-- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act i. Sc. 1. You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain Health A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) Health
A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
one.
-- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri Health The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all
over it and put your name at the top.
-- English Professor, Ohio University Health
