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When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval
of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
-- Henry Miller "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person that loves you
enough chance to love you enough.
-- Dinah Shore Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
-- Samuel Johnson "Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) Albania "People drag their progeny around with them like a ball and chain, like some terrible deadweight that hinders their every move - and that, as often as not, effectively winds up killing them." (Michel After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, "I'd like some fries." The girl at the counter said,
"Would you like some fries with that?"
-- Jay Leno Albania
Remember your dreams.
-- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
--Loesje If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers Albania The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner Albania
Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley ... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more
aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since
To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig
deep into the actual and get something out of that - this doubtless is the right way to live.
-- H I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Albania "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 Albania
May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
-- Bhagava Gita Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen [You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and
therefore congenial to it.
-- G. K. Chesterton Albania If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. Albania
Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One
looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our
human Albania Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) Albania
A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Albania Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
-- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and
inex It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman Albania
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell We are the echo of the future.
-- W. S. Merwin God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Albania Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large
organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.
-- Dave Barry Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa Albania
A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) Albania If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
-- Maya Angelou When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 Albania
However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
-- Libbie Fudim "I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower."
"Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!"
-- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx Albania Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous "Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you
get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a
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I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Albania An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to
run his, either.
-- Anonymous Albania
"Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your
girdle when your hips stick.
-- Ogden Nash Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous Albania Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
-- Albert Einstein A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of
humor is just common sense, dancing.
-- Clive James Albania
