Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) Lezha "It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books--what other men do not say in whole books." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols) Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan Lezha
If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
-- Maya Angelou If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
-- Roger Simon Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Lezha "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with
the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover,
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Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) "From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) "You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright Lezha I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers Lezha
"It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. "Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) "Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. Lezha Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it,
there will be a fish.
-- Ovid To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz Lezha
The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
is.
-- Arnold Bennett "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Lezha "I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free." (Walker Percy, The Moviegoer) Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one.
-- Oscar Levant, to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu Lezha
"I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is
thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.
-- Henry Wadsworth Lo Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason Lezha blah "Ideas are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and, following them, you reach yo "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cćsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) Lezha
Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
- Samuel Palmer Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Lezha The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado Lezha
For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely
unnatural condition.
-- Robert Briffault The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
-- Nathan Hale Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen Lezha "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) "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 Lezha
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-- Bill Stern "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) 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 English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. Lezha A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb Lezha
"Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the
custom of shaving.
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) Lezha "Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise Lezha
"One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other
friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things:
and in that "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell Lezha Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell Lezha
