2003-06-04 6:25 p.m.

Albert Camus:

Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal. **I would be "some people"**

You cannot acquire experience by making experiments. You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.

Do not wait for the last judgment. It takes place every day.

Friedrich Nietzsche:

At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid.

The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.

In heaven all the interesting people are missing.

Heinrich Heine:

Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid.

Albert Einstein:

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.

As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.

**this is my life on a daily basis!**

Ethical axioms are found and tested not very differently from the axioms of science. Truth is what stands the test of experience.

Issac Bashevis Singer **the reason I want to learn Yiddish**

We know what a person thinks not when he tells us what he thinks, but by his actions.

When you betray somebody else, you also betray yourself.

There will be no justice as long as man will stand with a knife or with a gun and destroy those who are weaker than he is.

Charles Darwin:

Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.

Leo Tolstoy:

Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.

In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.

What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness.

The strongest of all warriors are these two -- Time and Patience.

Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal.

And ending with a humorist:

Mark Twain:

A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it begins to rain. ** a quote for Jenn and her mortgage ;-) **

Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.

Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.

I don't give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way.

I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting. **see, it's not just me....**

Never put off until tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow.

Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.

There are people who strictly deprive themselves of each and every eatable, drinkable, and smokable which has in any way acquired a shady reputation. They pay this price for health. And health is all they get for it. How strange it is. It is like paying out your whole fortune for a cow that has gone dry.

Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.

When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.

Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time to reform.

Familiarity breeds contempt - and children.

~t