Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
-- Maya Angelou "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses Health The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 Health
Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley Health Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock "To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) I do not see the EEC as a great love affair. It is more like nine desperate middle-ages couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope. -- Tynan 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 Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton Health Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.
-- R. Scott Richards The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
- George Bernard Shaw Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is
thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.
-- Henry Wadsworth Lo Health
Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.
-- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995 Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber Health "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Health
If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Man is a natural polygamist. He always has one woman leading him by the nose and another
hanging on to his coattails.
-- H. L. Mencken "I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni Health "Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they
can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and
stupid from Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle Health
Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't
natural.
-- Bob Beckel, on term limits, CBS This Morning, 3/30/95 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 I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like
a black mistake.
-- D. H. Lawrence "I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) He who laughs last didn't get it.
-- Helen Giangregorio Health Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The
premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool.
-- Kelvin Throop I "All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) "A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Health
Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window.
You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house.
-- Jean Ke Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein "Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton "Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) Health A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot Health
"The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him.
-- Cher Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker
room is the temple where they worship arrested development.
-- Russell Baker The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause
we believe to be just.
-- Abraham Lincoln I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy.
-- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board Health Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
-- Vladimir Nabokov Health
Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is
merely a good excuse not to play football.
-- Fran Lebowitz "Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.
- Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep
up with software demands "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous Health "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) "When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Health
Correction: Instead of being arrested, as we stated, for kicking his wife down a flight of stairs and hurling a lighted kerosene lamp after her, the Rev. James P. Wellman died unmarried four years ago Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and
remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't
work and the Health Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own
language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. Health
Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- 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 We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words Health
