My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-- Abraham Lincoln Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-- Indian proverb Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the
really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
-- Mark Twain Peshkopi I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere I didn't accept it. I received it.
-- Richard Allen, National Security Advisor to President Reagan, explaining the $1000 in cash and
two watches he was given by two Japanese journalists after he hel Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of
fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality
and Peshkopi
"By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature
machine gun.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) Peshkopi A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if
possible, speak a few reasonable words.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. Peshkopi
"Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it." (Colin Powell) No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon "Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) Peshkopi After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde Peshkopi
And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
-- Isaac B. Singer Peshkopi "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. Peshkopi
A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of
our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
-- John Adams "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm Peshkopi blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-- Ambrose Bierce Peshkopi
Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
-- Anonymous People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor Peshkopi True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason "Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) Peshkopi
Weaseling out of things is good. It's what separates us from the other animals....except weasels.
-- Homer Simpson, character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) Peshkopi Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
-- Beaumont, Francis History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx Peshkopi
Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt "The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we
respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
-- H. L. Mencken Peshkopi In the end, everything is a gag.
- Charlie Chaplin Here's to you and here's to me,
and I hope we never disagree.
But, if that should ever be,
to HELL with you, here's to ME!
-- Anonymous 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 Peshkopi
"Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard)." (Edgar R. Fiedler) We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent...
-- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported
in a contemporary "American Scholar" Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
-- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting
married I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department
store and he asked for my autograph.
-- Shirley Temple Black Peshkopi No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop
questioning.
-- Albert Einstein "Every now and then say, 'What the fu(c)k.' 'What the fu(c)k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future." (Curtis Armstrong, Risky Business, 1983) Peshkopi
I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.
-- David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes. "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson 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 Peshkopi "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen
closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping.
-- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di Peshkopi
Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves
great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates
the Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in
accordance with the dictates of reason.
-- Oscar Wilde "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) Peshkopi He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche "I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do
what he was afraid he couldn't do.
-- Henry Ford Peshkopi
