The mind is the result of the torments the flesh undergoes or inflicts upon itself.

You think you are clever until you find out how smart you are

Source Unknown

Jealousy is inconsolable because it cannot know the beloved

Mason Cooley, City Aphorisms, Fo

Prohibit the taking of omens, and do away with superstitious doubts. Then, until death itself comes, no calamity need be feared.

Sun Tzu

In my world, history comes down to language and art. No one cares much about what battles were fought, who won them and who lost them - unless there is a painting, a play, a song or a poem that speaks of the event.

Theodore Bikel

People forget how outcast 'They Might Be Giants' can be. They have a reputation for writing really deft, funny, clever melodies, and they also make a lot of music for kids, which is terrific, but when you see them in concert, they can rock the house.

John Hodgman

Of all the nations in the world, the United States was built in nobody's image. It was the land of the unexpected, of unbounded hope, of ideals, of quest for an unknown perfection. It is all the more unfitting that we should offer ourselves in images. And all the more fitting that the images which we make wittingly or unwittingly to sell America to the world should come back to haunt and curse us.

Daniel J. Boorstin

Half the world is composed of idiots, the other half of people clever enough to take indecent advantage of them.

Walter Kerr

It is reasonable to expect the doctor to recognize that science may not have all the answers to problems of health and healing.

Norman Cousins

Sometimes I've had to put myself on a diet.

Roger Moore

I do like athletes as they have amazing self-discipline.

Seal

Here you do have forests, where pigs could be raised by letting them root about in the forests for a good part of the year. Therefore, you have a different attitude toward them compared with what continues to exist in the Middle East.

Marvin Harris

Like it or not, in the end, it's one's body. It's literally what carries you through life. There's a reason for the saying, 'If you have your health, you have everything,' and it's true. Old age, disease - these are the great equalizers.

Candace Bushnell