If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
-- G. K. Chesterton It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley Health There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never
were, and ask why not?
-- Robert Francis Kennedy The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald Health
Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 Health I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
car.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
it.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats Health
Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.
-- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his
campaign pledge that there would be Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
-- Albert Einstein Health Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they
oppose it.
-- Sigmund Freud "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant Health
"I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department
store and he asked for my autograph.
-- Shirley Temple Black "Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored..." (Herman Melville, Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. Health Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good
marriage
-- Martin Luther A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is
something everybody believes, except the person who made it.
-- Albert Einstein, attributed Health
"Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde 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 If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? Health "The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams Health
If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
toys?
-- Douglas Coupland The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
-- Robert M. Pirsig Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each
other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's
nerves Health Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) Health
An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold Health Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers Health
The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) Health Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills Health
You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
- Bill Hirst "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) Health You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.
-- American Proverb Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
-- Oscar Wilde Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer Health
I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin "The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them
down people's throats.
-- Howard Aiken your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. Health Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't
take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates...
-- Anonymous I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that
M&Ms really do melt in your hand...
-- Peter Oakley Health
Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius "Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) Health Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Health
