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Honor lies in honest toil.
-- Grover Cleveland The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
-- Roger Simon One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
- Bertrand Russell
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A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince Health Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President Health
>From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Anonymous "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Health "We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman Health
The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz >From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea--written in red on every
beachhead form Australia to Tokyo--There is no substitute for victory!
-- General Douglas MacArthur Health The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do
its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.
-- I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) Health
The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and
remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't
work and the I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
wastes to Third Wo "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) "I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so Amer A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg Health Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon 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 "Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it Health
Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had
never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
-- Orison Swett Marden Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway.
-- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board Health Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and
blows up the bonfire.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain Health
Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
-- Finley Peter Dunne The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
history.
-- George Bernard Shaw One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
reputation.
-- Oscar Wilde If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.
-- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War Health You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was
60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is.
-- Ellen DeGeneres Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
-- Plutarch Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol Health
What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
-- Woody Allen Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais Health "Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The
gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
-- Thomas Arnold Bennet Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings Health
Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) Health If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it
is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain
as marijuana...The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two, but can't
remember what Health
"If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx "The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl could want in her life, except for good
taste in men!
-- Wedding Toast Health Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
-- Anonymous "The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein Health
Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you
together, but do so with all your heart.
-- Marcus Aurelius Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite
without any wish to act.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Health "I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with
the powerful, not to be neutral.
-- Paulo Freire Health
Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows
how to make us disobedient.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 When you're away, I'm restless, lonely
Wretched, bored, dejected; only
here's the rub, my darling dear,
I feel the same when you are here.
-- Samuel Hoffenstein Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell Health "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and
remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't
work and the You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl Health