Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) The telephone company is urging people to *please* not use the telephone unless it is absolutely
necessary in order to keep the lines open for emergency personnel. We'll be right back after this
bre A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr Health Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.... This is an ex-parrot.
-- John Cleese, Monty Python, British comedy television show Health
"Whether it is a black cat or a white cat, as long as it can catch the rat, it is a good cat." (Deng Xiao Ping) "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
-- Albert Einstein Health Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) Health
To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall
looking frantic.
-- Steven Wright "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) 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 It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman Health To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its
prime function of looking forward.
-- Margaret Fairless Barber "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) A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen Health
One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
definition, is unassailable.
-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
-- Mother Teresa Health When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already
were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
-- Shane Leslie 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 Health
Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
- H. G. Wells What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
write better.
- A. J. Liebling Health "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein Health
Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) Health "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber Health
If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones All you need is love.
-- The Beatles, song title A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He
experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of
optic Health Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet
not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
-- François de La Rouch Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken Health
We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 Health Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich Health
"I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats." (Woody Allen, in regard to the KKK) I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius Health To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman Health
For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good
results: drag behind car through puddles, blow-dry on roofrack.
-- Laundry instructions on a shirt Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really
lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.
-- Herman Melville If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin I didn't accept it. I received it.
-- Richard Allen, National Security Advisor to President Reagan, explaining the $1000 in cash and
two watches he was given by two Japanese journalists after he hel Health "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be
feasible.
- A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop "For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) Health
To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
--Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
-- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Steven Wright It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they
are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
-- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller Health In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
-- Christopher Morley "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan Health
