"It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
- unknown Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem
mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's
chara Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
-- Ray Bandy Health A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
-- Buke Ellington In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. Health
There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
-- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and
members of the Senate.
-- Dan Quayle, Former Vice-President Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton Health For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
bad ones.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Health
Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best
to become the best you are capable of becoming.
-- John R. Wooden, Practical Modern Basketball They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell "Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) Health If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery
increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control
futur I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco Health
I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to
me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
-- Lucille Ball If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the
consequences.
-- Isadora Duncan "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante Health What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West Health
Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain Health Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Health
If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-- Samuel Butler The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.
-- Mark Twain I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it.
And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.
-- George Bus "A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it." (Claude Rains, as Mr. Dryden, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your
thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be.
-- Richard Mitchell, from Health Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli 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 I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN Health
"It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
-- Ernest Hemingway I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
-- Nathan Hale Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet "I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats." (Woody Allen, in regard to the KKK) Health Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically,
ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion.
-- Fred Rogers, parody of "Row, row, row your boa Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine "I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) Health
A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery ...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline
luggage.
-- Mark Russell We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill Health Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
-- Anonymous Health
When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
-- Clarence Darrow You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
-- Hermione Gingold I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
-- Douglas Adams No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. Health Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.
-- Londo Molari 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 Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
-- Anonymous Health
If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
-- James McNeill Whistler May you never leave your marriage alive. A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with
the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
-- Cynthia Heimel I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz Health Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) Health
"If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him.
-- Cher Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
-- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous Health Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France Health
