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Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
-- Woody Allen I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous Health This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) There is more to life than increasing its speed.
-- Gandhi Health
"Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures--in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together." "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
-- Karl Wallenda If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed Health Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. Health
I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature
intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times
worse tha The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha Health War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if
he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called
marriage.
-- James Holt McGavran Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha Health
"The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) 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 Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their
powers as a State depend.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Health The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." (Alexander Pope) Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince Health
"When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Health "... adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, quoted in his obituary, Time) The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Health
He who laughs last didn't get it.
-- Helen Giangregorio An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What
do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came
back with ano Health "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The
gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
-- Thomas Arnold Bennet Health
"I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) Health "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for
love is measured by fullness, not by reception.
-- Harold Loukes Health
The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle Health Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the
top.
-- Ed Abbey Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero Health
Go away...I'm alright.
-- H. G. Wells, dying words A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Establishing yourself, furnishing a house, building up a comfortable existence, and having that menace hanging over your head all the time - no, I prefer to live in hotels, cafés, just passing through Health You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman "Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details." (Andy Warhol, America, 1985) "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Health
If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz "Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford Health "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have
to shave twice a day.
-- Adlai Stevenson "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Health
Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door
and just visit now and then.
-- Katharine Hepburn The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
newspapers.
-- Thomas Jefferson "We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb Health "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-
proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe
is The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr Health
