When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to
criticize others.
-- H. Jackson Brown Kruja 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 You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl "Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) Kruja
The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead He who laughs, lasts.
-- Mary Pettibone Poole I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius Kruja The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
-- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA Kruja
Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm "Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin Kruja He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. Kruja
The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa Kruja "You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
chastisement.
-- Ernest Dimnet Kruja
Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can
only read the title.
-- Virginia Woolf All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi Kruja "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen Kruja
It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-
inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least
expect i The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "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 Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing
matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.
-- Amy Bloom Kruja "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson Kruja
Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan Kruja Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door
and just visit now and then.
-- Katharine Hepburn Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Kruja
Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford Kruja People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
-- Vladimir Nabokov "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) Kruja
"The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! Kruja "Frank and explicit; that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others." (Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil) Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Kruja
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, History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of
your life.
-- Abbie M. Dale Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James "Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( Kruja Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler Kruja
Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through
self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
-- Helen Keller There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be
said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot
successfully "I'll endorse with my name any of the following; clothing AC-DC, cigarettes, small tapes, sound equipment, ROCK N' ROLL RECORDS, anything, film, and film equipment, Food, Helium, Whips, MONEY!!" (And Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. Kruja If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel Kruja
