No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac 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 "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) "God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Hospital Radio We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley "Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) Hospital Radio
I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Indeed, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all.
-- Ogden Nash, Song of the Open Road, 1945 "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart Hospital Radio I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
-- Will Rogers "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up
something appropriate and do it.
-- E. W. Howe Hospital Radio
Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in
opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
-- Sydney Smith A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson Hospital Radio No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be
built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
-- Anne S Hospital Radio
Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me!
-- Henry Ford The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney Hospital Radio It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.
-- Tom Robbins Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.
-- John Murray If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman Hospital Radio
You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson Weaseling out of things is good. It's what separates us from the other animals....except weasels.
-- Homer Simpson, character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan My other wife is beautiful. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming Hospital Radio To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to
finish without knowing what you have written.
-- Jean Jacques Rousseau A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Guitry Hospital Radio
Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara "What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux." (Thomas Pynchon) Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up
something appropriate and do it.
-- E. W. Howe Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. Hospital Radio UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
-- Seen on a t-shirt Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Hospital Radio
"If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances
continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the
distance Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein Hospital Radio "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Hospital Radio
All television is children's television.
-- Richard P. Adler "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) 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 A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
-- Buke Ellington Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings Hospital Radio Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill If you never want to see a man again, say, "I love you, I want to marry you, I want to have children..." - they leave skid marks. -- Rita Rudner Hospital Radio
"To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) "Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
newspapers.
-- Thomas Jefferson Hospital Radio "In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl could want in her life, except for good
taste in men!
-- Wedding Toast Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings Hospital Radio
Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) "Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb "Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) Hospital Radio With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its
prime function of looking forward.
-- Margaret Fairless Barber It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Hospital Radio
I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Goodbye, Everybody!
-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. Hospital Radio My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! "The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." (Albert Camus) "I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free." (Walker Percy, The Moviegoer) Hospital Radio
