If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland ...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!
-- Dr. Strangelove General Practice These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.
-- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995 A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their
graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort.
-- Sydney Smith Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt General Practice
"To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde Remember your dreams.
-- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. General Practice "And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
-- Herbert Westren Turnbull Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill General Practice
"Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no
character.
-- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
-- Buckminster He who laughs last didn't get it.
-- Helen Giangregorio Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. General Practice A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted
by a little physical antipathy.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. General Practice
Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch "I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
-- Adela Rogers St. John My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in
bed with her.
-- Lenny Bruce General Practice Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf General Practice
Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
-- Shane Leslie It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
-- Emiliano Zapata I just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for
half the money.
-- Arthur Godfrey General Practice Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. General Practice
Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker
room is the temple where they worship arrested development.
-- Russell Baker The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines
staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you
ask th "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( General Practice "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." We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were
reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing,
and "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) General Practice
There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's
age.
-- Modern Maturity If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who,
doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a
machi Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness
are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser
tha Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) General Practice Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of
genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
-- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller General Practice
We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing
matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.
-- Amy Bloom Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe General Practice It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous General Practice
Spinster: A bachelor's wife. I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
and bought jewelry.
-- Rita Rudner It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how
to make it interesting.
-- Milton Berle, when called to the microphone at the 2nd Annual Comedians Hal If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
-- Chekhov General Practice "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein General Practice
To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer General Practice If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen
closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping.
-- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di General Practice
The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
ages as much as 20 years.
-- Anonymous I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) General Practice I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your
thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be.
-- Richard Mitchell, from General Practice
