Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first
comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland Neoplasms If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and
quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that
remains fa "In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." (Eric Hoffer) Neoplasms
Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire Neoplasms We have only one person to blame, and that's each other.
-- Barry Beck, New York Ranger, on who started a fight furing a hockey game "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle Neoplasms
To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig
deep into the actual and get something out of that - this doubtless is the right way to live.
-- H Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb Neoplasms Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. Neoplasms
You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be
sacrificed to expediency.
-- W. Somerset Maugham "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker 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. Neoplasms If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer "When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) 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 Neoplasms
The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same
joke and still feel lonely.
-- T. S. Eliot blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
-- Maya Angelou "I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w Neoplasms Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of
poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.
-- John Cage The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana Neoplasms
We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we
were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
-- John Stuart Mill Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
-- Helen Keller Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana Neoplasms We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd "When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wro Neoplasms
He who laughs last didn't get it.
-- Helen Giangregorio It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. Neoplasms 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 A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that.
-- Shakespeare, William Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar Neoplasms
To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its
prime function of looking forward.
-- Margaret Fairless Barber I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline
luggage.
-- Mark Russell "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) Neoplasms He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Neoplasms
"Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) "I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs
long enough."
-- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.
-- King George V Neoplasms All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell Neoplasms
A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland "College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Indeed, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all.
-- Ogden Nash, Song of the Open Road, 1945 Neoplasms "Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day." (Ali bin I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the
calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
-- Mark Twain "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Neoplasms
The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas
doctors rob you and kill you too.
-- Anton Chekhov If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama Neoplasms Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
-- Red Buttons Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) Neoplasms
