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phobias
alfred adler once stated that neurosis is the weapon of the coward. perhaps he was right.
androphobia- fear of men
arachibutryphobia- fear of peanut butter sticking to roof of mouth
anuptaphobia- fear of staying single
aulophobia- fear of flutes
Bolshephobia- fear of bolsheviks
cacophobia- fear of ugliness
defecaloeslophobia- fear of painful bowel movements
ecclesiaphobia- fear of church
epistemophobia- fear of knowledge
eremophobia- fear of being oneself
hagiophobia- fear of saints and holy things
ithyphallophobia- fear of erection
lachanophobia- fear of vegetables
luiphobia- fear of syphillis
melophobia- fear of music
menophobia- fear of menstruation
necrophobia- fear of DEATH
ouranophobia- fear of heaven
papaphobia- fear of the Pope
phaldcrophobia- fear of becoming bald
philemaphobia- fear of kissing
philophobia- fear of falling in love
proctophobia- fear of rectums
staurophobia- fear of the crucifix
urophobia- fear of urine
venustraphobia- fear of beautiful women
quotes
Attention to health is life's greatest hindrance. - plato
"Plato was a bore." - Friedrich Nietzsche
"Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." - Leo Tostoy
"I'm not going to get into the ring with Tolstoy." - Ernest Hemingway
"Hemingway was a jerk." - Harold Robbins
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also
remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
Douglas Adams, Last Chance to See
to the world you may just be one little person, but to one little person, you may just be the world.
-unknown, related by jen
"you're excused."
"or your ass is kicked." (and--whoomph--the crowd parts as the red sea)
--garth, relating his story of the mason jennings show
Man should put woman up on a pedestal. just high enough to see up her dress... HOWEVER, i firmly believe
that man and woman should not walk hand in hand and side by side. man should take half a step forward and shield
her from the wind.--garth
i've spent most of my money on beer and pizza--the rest i've just wasted. --unknown, related by garth
i spit, therefore i'm punk.--barbara, on avril lavigne
conceptualize this. -me
mmmm...david bowie. -me
excogitate. mentally explode. you're a star. -me
all great art has a dose of ugliness. - gertrude stein
vibrate in your soul. -me
heightened senses are the tortured artist's condition. -me
worry doesn't pay the rent. -me
inquisitive children lead to productive adults. -me
intellectual reason is entirely evil. - william blake
"passionately in love with passion." - von Goerthe
excommunication as fear. -me
it's like brain coffee. -me
i may look really small, but there's really a 400lb man inside of me. -me
the pope is catholic. kristin is catholic. is kristin the pope? -barbara
"i'm a perfect 32AA, 32 inch waist...yeah, 32AA. they're exquisite rare miniatures..."--maria bamford, comedian
If I could spell, I'd be an absolute genius. -Mrs. Jackson (an AP English teacher)
Those crazy Scandinavians and their stoic reserve. -Mrs. Jackson
Oh good. There is a God. -Mrs. Jackson
you can't lick a belief and decide that it tastes like knowledge. -professor shapiro
it's like, you eat the cookies and then they're gone. - me
He that can't endure the bad will not see the good. --Jewish proverb
It is an art to recollect. -- Soren Kierkegaard
We are not amused. --Queen Victoria
I am not a crook. --Richard Milhous Nixon
While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.
--Leonardo da Vinci
Man is a social animal. --Spinoza
Life is to short to be little. -- a fortune cookie fortune
No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.
- Henry B.Adams,
"The Education of Henry Adams", 1907
I do not want people to be agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them.
Jane Austen
The liberty of man consists solely in this: that he obeys natural laws because he has himself recognized
them as such, and not because they have been externally imposed upon him by any extrinsic
will whatever, divine or human, collective or individual. --Mikhail Bakunin, God and the State
Karate is a form of martial arts in which people who have had years and years of training can, using only
their hands and feet, make some of the worst movies in the history of the world.
Dave Barry - American humorist, author
Music is a higher revelation than philosophy. -- Ludwig van Beethoven
Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them.
-- Dion Boucicault
About all you can do in life is be who you are. Some people will love you for you. Most will love you for what you
can do for them, and some won't like you at all.
Rita Mae Brown
A word is dead,
When it is said;
Some say. I say
It just began
to live that day.
-- Emily Dickinson
Immature poets borrow, mature poets steal --T.S. Eliot
Only the educated are free. -- Epictetus
People can have the Model T in any color--so long as it's black. -- Henry Ford
These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but *minds* alive on the shelves. - Gilbert Highet
Music expresses that which can not be said and on which it is impossible to be silent. -- Victor Hugo
Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.
- John Lennon
"If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or my music, then in that respect you can
call me that.... I believe in what I do, and I'll say it."
John Lennon
Without music, life would be a mistake - Nietzsche
Only sick music makes money today. -- Nietzsche
The heart has reasons that reason does not know. -- Pascal
All that we see or seem,
is but a dream within a dream.
- Edgar Allen Poe, from the poem "A Dream Within a Dream"
It's difficult to believe that people are still starving in this country because food isn't available. --Ronald Reagan
Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric. -- Bertrand Russel
So that's what Hell is: I'd never have believed it...Do you remember, brimstone, the stake, the gridiron?...What
a joke! No need of a gridiron, Hell is other people. - Sartre
If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him
step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away. - Henry David Thoreau
Good poetry seems too simple and natural a thing that when we meet it we wonder that all men are not always
poets. Poetry is nothing but healthy speech.- Thoreau
My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.
Orson Welles
