The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
- Lucille S. Harper Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does
come, we no longer exist.
-- Epicurus Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar Elbasan Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.... This is an ex-parrot.
-- John Cleese, Monty Python, British comedy television show Elbasan
The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) Elbasan In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not
allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating,
stealing, Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to
do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did.
-- Anonymous Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner Elbasan
No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and
blows up the bonfire.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does
not change his mind.
-- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
- H. G. Wells Elbasan "... adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, quoted in his obituary, Time) It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some
simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion.
-- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan Elbasan
"The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back Elbasan Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
-- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers Elbasan
Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem
mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's
chara Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something
different.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
-- Anonymous "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own
language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Elbasan Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork
picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
-- Tom Stoppard Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the
writing will be just as it should be.
-- Mark Twain "I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) Elbasan
A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I ask
is a chance."
-- Anon. Elbasan Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche "Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood Elbasan
Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene "The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers Elbasan Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa Elbasan
Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage,
he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it.
-- Helen Roland Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
-- Will Rogers There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison Elbasan Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. "I should reproach him for not giving us enough evidence." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970, what he would say to God if they 'met') If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Elbasan
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings Elbasan "Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer Elbasan
"Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who
take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
-- INDIRA Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Steven Wright Elbasan They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
-- Anonymous The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde "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) Elbasan
"The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
-- Al Bernstein With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly good I thee endow.
-- Wedding Vow, Book of Common Prayer To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch Elbasan "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung Elbasan
