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"Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way
of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous "No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, g Health Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the
custom of shaving.
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Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
-- Virginia Woolf Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically,
ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion.
-- Fred Rogers, parody of "Row, row, row your boa "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
-- Leslie Jeanne Sahler Health Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and
therefore congenial to it.
-- G. K. Chesterton Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset Health
Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
time "Think off-center." (George Carlin) 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 Health Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-- Stephen Covey "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins Health
Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind
and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the
coachin It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
-- Jules Renard Health "The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if
he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
-- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. Health
The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson Health The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
-- George Bernard Shaw I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer "Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation." (Larry Flynt) 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 Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken "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) There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous Health Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely
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It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to
help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to
comfort us along I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in
charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
-- Hen Health In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
-- Publilius Syrus Health
[You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
happen to him.
-- John Barrymore - last words Health No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson Health
Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) "People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult." (Anne A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
-- Buke Ellington 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 "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one Health
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 Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the
time by watching the second hand of a clock.
-- Ben Hecht "Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) "I offer images; I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached ... But, we can only open the doors. We can't drag people through. I can't free them unless they want to be free--more than any Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol 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 Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the
top.
-- Ed Abbey God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if
he finds her.
-- Benjamin Tillett Health
He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman Health Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
-- George Saunders - last words I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we
respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
-- H. L. Mencken Health
