The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again.
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in
every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain Immune Disorders "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) Immune Disorders
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 Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain "All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) Immune Disorders Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's
age.
-- Modern Maturity Immune Disorders
Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover ... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more
aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since
You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room
enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.
-- Fred Allen Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender Immune Disorders I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in
charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
-- Hen Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
-- Anonymous You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton Immune Disorders
If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel "The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) "The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) There is more to life than increasing its speed.
-- Gandhi Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison Immune Disorders Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
-- Anonymous Man and wife make one fool. He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht Immune Disorders
"I put on an act sometimes, and people think I'm insensitive. Really, it's like a kind of armor because I'm too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I' I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier Immune Disorders As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi Immune Disorders
There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
-- J. Heller When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want,
and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.
-- Fred Astaire Immune Disorders Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the
advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first.
-- Benjamin Franklin Immune Disorders
Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz "I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) Immune Disorders Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing
they die earlier.
-- H. L. Mencken "There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips." (Elsa Lanchester) "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Immune Disorders
If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
-- James McNeill Whistler Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window.
You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house.
-- Jean Ke If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet
enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
-- Anonymous History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill Immune Disorders Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx Immune Disorders
The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My
answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer
to that would be Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli "Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Immune Disorders If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
-- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber Immune Disorders
Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Borge The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My
answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer
to that would be Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? "God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) Immune Disorders Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
-- Anonymous Immune Disorders
Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman "In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat." (Robert Byrne) Immune Disorders Anything too stupid to be said, is sung.
-- Voltaire I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call
me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
-- Rebecca West, Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
-- George Santayana Immune Disorders
