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There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's
age.
-- Modern Maturity If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Health It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust
there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
-- Andre Norton Health
"One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) 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 You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 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 Health It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide 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. How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
a leg.
-- Abraham Lincoln Health
"That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you
don't know. He knows now that he doesn't know. Last year, he didn't know that.
-- Bill Parcels, New Engla "And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson Health I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone 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 Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. Health
"Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from
both sides.
-- Margaret Thatcher The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) Health Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. Just
flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around "The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan Health
We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop "Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) Health That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been
all along.
-- Madeleine L'Engle "To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan Health
I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence "... 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) Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle Health They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to
get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
-- Billie Holliday This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken Health
There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best
to become the best you are capable of becoming.
-- John R. Wooden, Practical Modern Basketball "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Health Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford Health
Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) Health "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Health
My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. ...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.
-- Sigmund Freud Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous Health Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard Health
LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the
influences under which he incurred the disorder... It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the
physician Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein Health The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt "An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid." (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th earl of) The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live Health
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford "Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra) The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to
contact us.
-- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes There is more to life than increasing its speed.
-- Gandhi "Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Health Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to
criticize others.
-- H. Jackson Brown You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-- Richard Bach And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses Health
