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I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at
the same time.
- Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw Health I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) Health
The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce
intelligence.
-- Philo Vance "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
-- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting
married The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution,
of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always
be Health "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) Health
It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by
the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off!
-- Douglas Jerold, 1858 "Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) The nourishment is palatable.
-- Millard Fillmore, dying words The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. Health Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim
to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire.
-- Gen. George Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large
organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.
-- Dave Barry Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol Health
"I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to
benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.
-- Ralph Mars The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee Health Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
-- Charles Pierce None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really
lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.
-- Herman Melville Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
-- John Tudor Health
"A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) "I should reproach him for not giving us enough evidence." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970, what he would say to God if they 'met') blah "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-- Carl Gustav Jung Health The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet
not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
-- François de La Rouch 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 Health
I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke
or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
-- Charles Brower You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
-- George Santayana Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx Health Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor I have a daughter who goes to SMU. She could've gone to UCLA here in California, but it's one
more letter she'd have to remember.
-- Shecky Greene Health
May you never leave your marriage alive. An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all
over it and put your name at the top.
-- English Professor, Ohio University Health Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce In the blithe days of honeymoon,
With Kate's allurements smitten,
I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon,
And call'd her dearest kitten.
But now my kitten's grown a cat,
And cross like other wives.
A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb Health
It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.
-- Barbara Bush, first lady, 1989 Saying that Windows95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and
believing you've witnessed the second coming.
-- Guy Kawasaki "I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) Health "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous Health
The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill "I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the
lessons that history has to teach.
-- Aldous Huxley "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) Health People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte Health
"Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things.
-- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) Health "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived
in this century. I didn't live in this century.
-- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic "God is dead: but considering the state Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom) Health
I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley "In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) "... 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) Health I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way
to bet.
-- Damon Runyan Health
