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The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Health Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) Health
"Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician My other wife is beautiful. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly Health If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
-- Lily Tomlin Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not
know what to create.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset Health
Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) Health 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 The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
it.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) Health
Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not
"Eureka!", but "That's funny..."
-- Isaac Asimov blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb Health "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau Health
Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson "To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley Health "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 What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
toys?
-- Douglas Coupland Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass
produced with unskilled labor.
-- Wernher von Braun Health
All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) I tried a mail order bride, once, but she was damaged in the mail, and I had to return the unused part for my full refund. Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and
blows up the bonfire.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Health We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
-- Virginia Woolf "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Health
To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill 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 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 If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Health "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein Health
Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) "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) One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde Health "Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
-- Gloria Leonard Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell Health
A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference
between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I
don't know and Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours "The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) Health "People drag their progeny around with them like a ball and chain, like some terrible deadweight that hinders their every move - and that, as often as not, effectively winds up killing them." (Michel "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Health
If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man
will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
-- Henry Ford ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Honor lies in honest toil.
-- Grover Cleveland In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been
widely regarded as a bad move.
-- Douglas Adams See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo Health If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who,
doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a
machi If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Health
If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
-- Sigmund Freud "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) Health In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed.
They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position.
-- John Hogan, Commonwealth There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Health
