If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would
be able to endure it.
-- Schopenhauer There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous "Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat
guy in the third row exists?
-- Woody Allen Health Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
freedom.
-- Albert Einstein Health
"Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi 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 "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is
thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.
-- Henry Wadsworth Lo Health "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) 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 "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Health
"There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin Health 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 The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous 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 Health
"Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Health Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) Health
The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) 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 To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill Health The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston Health
Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke "In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. Health Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins "People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) Health
Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
- James Stephens "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince Health I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton Health
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 Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton "To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill Health I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Health
Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.
-- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway Health Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. Jake liked his women the way he liked his kiwi fruit: sweet yet tart, firm-fleshed yet yielding to the
touch, and covered with short brown fuzzy hair.
-- Jonathan S. Haas "Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored..." (Herman Melville, Health
History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the
first half.
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the
next meal would come from.
-- Peter F. Drucker cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
gone beyond that.
-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic Health I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they
study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.
-- Gerald Early, writer, baseball do "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u Health
"A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) "The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) "My daughter has never forgiven me. for what, I don't know, because for years, she won't speak to me. She blackens my name in the press and makes me think abortion is an excellent idea." (Klaus Kinsk Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
-- Anonymous "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) Health The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) "A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) Health
