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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 A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
-- Sidney Goff There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a
natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing
changes and yet everything is completely different.
-- Aldous Huxley Health The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce
intelligence.
-- Philo Vance She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. Health
I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder "Think off-center." (George Carlin) We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution,
of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always
be I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus Health Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore:
? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its
duties.
? Work Health
Goodbye, Everybody!
-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country
could do under first-class management.
-- Senator Soaper The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or
theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
-- George Santayana Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson Health My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the
slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional
convi A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your
girdle when your hips stick.
-- Ogden Nash Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
- Samuel Palmer Health
Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork
picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
-- Tom Stoppard There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and
inex "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) "In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat." (Robert Byrne) Health 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 A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words
that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
-- Alexander Pope He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown Health
"... 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) Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things!
-- Tom Lehrer Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) Health You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.
-- American Proverb Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. "That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, Health
You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Health Honor lies in honest toil.
-- Grover Cleveland A White House well filled, a little peanut field well tilled, and a wife who will go to the Bronx are
great riches.
-- Poor Jimmy's Almanac "We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe Health
The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we
were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
-- John Stuart Mill Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 Health "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) Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
-- Satchel Paige If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I Health
Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous "For others do I wait ... for higher ones, stronger ones, more triumphant ones, merrier ones, for such as are built squarely in body and soul: laughing lions must come." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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. You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower Health You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-- Richard Bach There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous "Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Health
When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't
have done.
-- Malcolm Forbes Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
-- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be
sacrificed to expediency.
-- W. Somerset Maugham For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken Health The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw "One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price. I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I Health
What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The
average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted
to Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a
brand new ending.
-- Anonymous 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 Health Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman "I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) Health
We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
-- Albert Einstein Health My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it,
Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me
de Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. Health
