Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it
is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) Health "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous Health
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 Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their
powers as a State depend.
-- Benjamin Disraeli This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup Health Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is
when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.
-- Marcel Achard I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words Health
I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
-- Booker T. Washington "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) Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
him.
-- Rich Little Health "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde Health
Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Anonymous Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a
thing to be acheived.
-- William Jennings Bryant "Friends are those people who know the words to the song in your heart and sing them back to you when you have forgotten the words." (Anonymous) "... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) "People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) Health "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical
deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
-- Albert Einstein Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers Health
Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan "Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of g Health The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
-- Publilius Syrus "Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-- Groucho Marx Health
The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.
-- Sigmund Freud The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do
its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.
-- A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey 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 The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would
be doing if he were alive today?
1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War.
2) Advising the President.
3) D Health
"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) "The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
- Robert Frost Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) Health Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln Health
Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature
intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times
worse tha >From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea--written in red on every
beachhead form Australia to Tokyo--There is no substitute for victory!
-- General Douglas MacArthur Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put
over my kitchen table.
-- Rodney Dangerfield Health "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) "I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Health
In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the
next meal would come from.
-- Peter F. Drucker Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and
quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that
remains fa "Frank and explicit; that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others." (Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil) The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the
false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
-- Salvador Dali Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Health Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
-- George Jean Nathan "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they
oppose it.
-- Sigmund Freud Health
Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique
added to the armamentarium of political inquiry. Anyone who cannot negotiate Chi squares,
assess randomi I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment.
-- Voltaire Health Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
-- Karl Wallenda Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "These are days you'll remember." If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony,
remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.
-- Christine Todd, NJ Governor, Whea Health
Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde "Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and
blows up the bonfire.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood Health "Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln Health
