The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant 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 "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards Health Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is
that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one.
-- Anonymous Health
"Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
-- Anonymous Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree
to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full
of grac "In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat." (Robert Byrne) "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Health It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein Health
Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
-- Johnny Carson "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the
consequences.
-- Isadora Duncan My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. Health 2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time.
-- inside of a Pepsi cap Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde Health
Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways
to be, you know that there are...
-- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Health I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Health
Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
existence.
-- Sydney Smith "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in
opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
-- Sydney Smith Health I just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb Health
The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) 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 blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) "Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god." (Jean Rostand) Health Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) Health
"Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to
be a coincidence.
-- Jeremy S. Anderson "Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) "The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) Health Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell "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) "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Health
Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein "A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant Health Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning
there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have
people all They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.
-- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the
House Bank scandal When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Health
Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the
calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
-- Mark Twain 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 Health The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-- Samuel Butler This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper Health
Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.
-- David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes. "Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
-- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act i. Sc. 1. "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) Health Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday
afternoon.
-- Susan Ertz I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx Health
Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of
poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.
-- John Cage Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady
in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me.
-- Dick Martin "I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so Amer Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau Health Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
-- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life 'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 Health
