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The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman 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 Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet "The feminists used to say that chivalry and ladyhood were ways of keeping women down and preventing them from standing toe to toe with the guys. Now you've got a lot of women saying that if a guy is Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker Health A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman Health
Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
-- Gloria Leonard The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
-- Colin Wilson "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) Health If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
-- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
-- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 "Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) Health
Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me
is another matter.
- Sir Winston Churchill A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville Health Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they
oppose it.
-- Sigmund Freud Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Health
We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) 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 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 "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) Health I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Health
In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard "The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) Health All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
-- G. K. Chesterton Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning Health
"Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea.
-- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Health That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the
lessons that history has to teach.
-- Aldous Huxley A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy Health
"College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) "A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
-- George Clemenceau "If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) Health It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this
is not difficult.
-- Charlotte Whitton 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) 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 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 He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller Health I do not see the EEC as a great love affair. It is more like nine desperate middle-ages couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope. -- Tynan "In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill Health
"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) I'll sleep when I'm dead.
- Warren Zevon Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant "Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) Health "There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered." (Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom) It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Mark Twain "Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Health
Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and
tomorrow aint as bad as it seems.
-- Billy Joel The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of
mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
-- Rita Mae Brown I didn't accept it. I received it.
-- Richard Allen, National Security Advisor to President Reagan, explaining the $1000 in cash and
two watches he was given by two Japanese journalists after he hel The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) Health Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked
me in the cellar.
-- Anonymous Health
During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way
of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.
-- Wayne Gretzky "Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) Health I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
-- Adela Rogers St. John "Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) Health
