"If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
-- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
-- Oscar Wilde I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I
believed in liberals...
-- G. K. Chesterton "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) Public Health and Safety I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those
little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger,
as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is
when you r Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that
can be shot when it breaks down.
-- Russell Baker Public Health and Safety
>From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn
themselves to a life of vinegar.
-- Countess of Blessington "Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
-- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. Public Health and Safety When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
toys?
-- Douglas Coupland "Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) Public Health and Safety
There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at
heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels,
upon the lev Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
-- Rita Rudner "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) Public Health and Safety Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) "Friends are those people who know the words to the song in your heart and sing them back to you when you have forgotten the words." (Anonymous) Public Health and Safety
An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 "If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov Public Health and Safety Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away,
the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde Public Health and Safety
"As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings 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 Public Health and Safety 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 "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner Public Health and Safety
A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly good I thee endow.
-- Wedding Vow, Book of Common Prayer I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted
in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism.
-- Heidi Hartmann, The Unha I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison Public Health and Safety "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family.
-- Navaho saying Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway Public Health and Safety
Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
-- Ken Dodd While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
-- Bhagava Gita You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry Public Health and Safety If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) Public Health and Safety
Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes
some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny.
-- George Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best
to become the best you are capable of becoming.
-- John R. Wooden, Practical Modern Basketball Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa Public Health and Safety "No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, g "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas Public Health and Safety
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 "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
-- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green Public Health and Safety Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
-- Karl Wallenda Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.
-- Londo Molari Public Health and Safety
Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't
take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates...
-- Anonymous Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman Public Health and Safety 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 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 Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and
cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
-- Tom Robbins Public Health and Safety
"Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) "If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain Public Health and Safety Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples'
decisions for them?
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All Public Health and Safety
