Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
-- Rita Rudner 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 We can say 'Peace on Earth,' we can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have
not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us, then it will not be.
-- Betty Shabazz British Medical Association Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the
consequences.
-- Isadora Duncan British Medical Association
If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words British Medical Association Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) "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) British Medical Association
I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
-- Ambrose Bierce I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including:
* Both of your socks should always be the same color
* Or they should at least both be fairly dark
-- Dave Barry When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
- George Washington Carver Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying British Medical Association There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison British Medical Association
blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "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 "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) University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton British Medical Association One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke British Medical Association
"Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle British Medical Association Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept
me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't
everythin The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero British Medical Association
It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should
live honourably.
-- Kant, Immanuel Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something.
-- Seymour Papert Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan British Medical Association The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson "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) "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) British Medical Association
Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and
cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
-- Tom Robbins The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up
between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever.
-- Virginia Woolf We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
-- Buck Henry If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
-- Al Bernstein British Medical Association "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find
out how to do it.
-- Theodore Roosevelt British Medical Association
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein 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 British Medical Association "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) "Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) British Medical Association
In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
-- Helen Rowland "Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." (Dylan Thomas) There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you
yourself have altered.
-- Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde British Medical Association "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't
certain we knew better.
-- George Bird Evans "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) British Medical Association
"The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford British Medical Association Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) blah "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) British Medical Association
I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines
staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you
ask th "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler British Medical Association The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke "I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) British Medical Association
