MY FAVORITE QUOTES AND APHORISMS

"THE GRAVEYARDS ARE FULL OF INDISPENSABLE MEN."-- GEN. de GAULLE. "MEN, WHO DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO WITH THEIR LIVES, WANT ANOTHER ONE THAT LASTS FOREVER." --ANATOLE FRANCE. "TO SAVE YOUR WORLD, YOU ASKED THIS MAN TO DIE. W'D THIS MAN, COULD HE SEE YOU NOW, ASK WHY?"--W.H.AUDEN. "IT'S AN ILL WIND THAT BLOWS NO GOOD." --ANON. "I WAS THE ONLY WOMAN IN THE CABINET, AND I WAS THE ONLY ONE WITH, WELL, YOU KNOW, AND I LOVED IT."-- GOLDA MEIR. "THE PEOPLE OF NEBRASKA," SAID THE ARCHETYPAL POPULIST WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN, "ARE FOR FREE SILVER AND I AM FOR FREE SILVER. I WILL LOOK UP THE ARGUMENTS LATER." "IT IS THE COCK THAT CROWS, BUT THE HEN THAT LAYS THE EGGS."--MARGARET THATCHER. "CIVILIZATIONS DIE FROM SUICIDE, NOT MURDER."--ARNOLD TOYNBEE. "THE PEOPLE IN HELL WANT ICE WATER."--JOE MULDOWNEY. MARGARET THATCHER AT THE UNVEILING OF HER STATUE, "I MIGHT HAVE PREFERRED IRON, BUT BRONZE WILL DO." "THERE IS NO FREE LUNCH."--MILTON FRIEDMAN. "YOU DON'T LEARN WHO IS SWIMMING NAKED UNTIL THE TIDE GOES OUT."--WARREN BUFFET.. MEASURE TWICE, CUT ONCE.--ANON."POST HOC ERGO PROPTER HOC." [AFTER THIS THEREFOR BECAUSE OF THIS.]--ANON. "A MAN WHO DARES WASTE ONE HOUR OF TIME HAS NOT DISCOVERED THE VALUE OF LIFE."--CHARLES DARWIN. "POWER TENDS TO CORRUPT AND ABSOLUTE POWER CORRUPTS ABSOLUTELY."--LORD ACTON. "TWICE IN THE 20th CENTURY,EUROPE CAME CLOSE TO COMMITTING SUICIDE BY WARS THAT IN RETROSPECT SEEM SENSELESS."--PAUL JOHNSON. "DON'T KEEP YOUR BREAD AND YOUR MEAT IN THE SAME PLACE."--HAL NUGENT." "NEITHER BLAME,COMPLAIN, NOR EXPLAIN."--HM. "THE WIND IS TEMPERED TO THE SH0RN LAMB."--ANON."KEEP YOUR MOUTH SHUT, YOUR BOWELS OPEN, AND DON'T VOLUNTEER."--ADVICE FROM OLD SALTS TO RECRUITS. "ACT WELL YOUR PART/THERE ALL THE HONOUR LIES."--A.POPE. "NO TICKY, NO LAUNDRY."--CHINESE LAUNDRY. EVERYTHING IS DYNAMIC, EVERYTHING IS SUBJECTIVE.--HM. "RELIGION IS THE OPIUM OF THE PEOPLE."--MARX."TOO LATE."--MacARTHER'S TWO WORDS THAT DESCRIBE ALL MILITARY CATASTROPHES. "PENNY WISE AND POUND FOOLISH."--ANON."THIS SOUP WAS MADE OF THE SHADOW OF A CROW WHO WAS STARVING TO DEATH."--LINCOLN. "YOU CAN MAKE MORE MONEY SELLING ADVICE THAN YOU CAN FOLLOWING IT."--B.C.FORBES. "OBEDIENCE TO THE UNENFORCEABLE."(GOOD MANNERS)--JOHN SILBER,PRES.,BOSTON UNIVERSITY."Trying to paint the lily has been my lifelong curse."--HMC."NO HANDS, NO MOUTH."--LAW IN SUBSISTENCE ECONOMIES."ANY STIGMA WILL DO TO BEAT A DOGMA.--CHESTERTON. "CAPITALISM W/O BANKRUPTCY IS LIKE CHRISTIANITY W/O HELL."--FRANK BORMAN.

HEALTH CARE

HEALTH CARE, PROPERLY LABELED, IS WHAT WE DO OR DON'T DO TO AND/OR FOR OURSELVES FOR OUR OWN HEALTH, SUCH AS CHOOSING HEALTHY NUTRITION AND LIFE SYLES. MEDICAL/DENTAL CARE IS WHAT WE PAY PROFESSIONALS TO DO TO AND/OR FOR US."EVERY AMERICAN HAS ACCESS TO ADEQUATE MEDICAL CARE."--MARTIN FELDSTEIN.