The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes
in search of martyrdom is that the former expresses his idea most fully in death while the latter
really Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass
produced with unskilled labor.
-- Wernher von Braun "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) 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 The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other
is ready.
-- Henry David Thoreau Lushnja As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than
the procreation of children.
-- Thornton Wilder "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) Lushnja
"There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous "In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat." (Robert Byrne) I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation.
-- Latin Proverb Lushnja "Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist Lushnja
"It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Lushnja If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your
thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be.
-- Richard Mitchell, from Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the
second, "For my best friend."
-- Anonymous The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows Lushnja
Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
pure ignorance?
-- Holbrook Jackson Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon Lushnja "Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to t "Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein Lushnja
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein "The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
a fortune Lushnja "In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau Lushnja
His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller 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. Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. Lushnja Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your
way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition -- plowing straight ahead, come what
may I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison Lushnja
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"Hello Kitty is an icon that doesn't stand for a A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that.
-- Shakespeare, William "Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model.
Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush...
-- Dawn French Lushnja "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" Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
-- Lord Dewar I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement
speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have
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Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
-- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking
campaign LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the
influences under which he incurred the disorder... It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the
physician Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
-- Charles Pierce I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday
afternoon.
-- Susan Ertz Lushnja Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.
-- King George V Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana Lushnja
Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin Lushnja Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off
his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night.
-- Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley O May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment... it's
exciting to have a real crisis on your hands.
-- Margaret Thatcher, on the Falklands Conflict Lushnja
People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only
make $500,000.
-- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." (Mark Twain) When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France Lushnja Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-- Anonymous Lushnja
Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW 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, Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley Lushnja Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the
source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity,
ign In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin Live out of your imagination, not your history.
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