"Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc
jockey is not allowed to talk.
-- Fran Lebowitz I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde Health A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
-- Anthony Burgess I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh Health
If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would
have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I
didn' Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle
enough of them.
-- Flannery O'Connor The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted
in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism.
-- Heidi Hartmann, The Unha Health I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of
something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than
cocaine.
"There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) Health
There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) "Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire Health There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
-- Neils Bohr In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson Health
Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu "I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real senten The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines
staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you
ask th Health "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea.
-- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone Health
When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
-- Buckminster 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 The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
-- Lord Dewar Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
-- Beaumont, Francis Health A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There
are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's
reall Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard Health
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley Health It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan Health
With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly good I thee endow.
-- Wedding Vow, Book of Common Prayer The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-- ee cummings The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils Health Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
-- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking
campaign I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller "The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi Health
A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke
or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
-- Charles Brower "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with
the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover,
Health Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the
opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
-- Oscar W I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement
speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have
th "I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos--especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom ... Rather than starting inside, I start ou Health
Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen
closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping.
-- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent...
-- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported
in a contemporary "American Scholar" Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson Health I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
- Bill Hirst Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw Health
The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
-- Hermione Gingold "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) Health We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) Health
A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the
marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.
-- Bette Davis I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils Health Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
- Samuel Palmer Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier. --H.L. Mencken Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward Health
