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Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein "I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting "When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Health Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon When you're away, I'm restless, lonely
Wretched, bored, dejected; only
here's the rub, my darling dear,
I feel the same when you are here.
-- Samuel Hoffenstein Health
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 Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-- Irwin Corey We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as
possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-- Gilda Radner Health He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
-- Publilius Syrus 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 I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call
me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
-- Rebecca West, Health
The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My
answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer
to that would be Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley
Temple could do it at the age of four.
-- Katharine Hepburn Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor 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 I still live.
-- Daniel Webster, dying words Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
-- Robert Browning One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles Health
"Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) In the end, everything is a gag.
- Charlie Chaplin I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous Health I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was
doing spying.
-- Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets for spying, in an i Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something.
-- Seymour Papert Health
The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
bad ones.
-- W. Somerset Maugham My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West "The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) Health Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the
marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.
-- Bette Davis Health
Anyway, 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,
ign People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf Health Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV Health
Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
-- Rory Bremner "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) Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 Health If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia Health
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 Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health,
knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
-- Roger Babson Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin Health Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and
hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in
Heaven.
-- P. J Health
My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. 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 "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In
this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
-- Marianne Williamson Health Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach "The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Health
"Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." (Dave Barry) "Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill "The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) Health Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain 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 Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman Health
Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous 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 "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous Health "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being
brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
-- Cynthia H The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Health
