We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
-- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger [You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and
blows up the bonfire.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way
of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all Pogradec If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. Pogradec
It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed.
They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position.
-- John Hogan, Commonwealth This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be
built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
-- Anne S Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi Pogradec "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) 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 "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) Pogradec
If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius "All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing.
Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
-- Oscar Wilde Pogradec The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up
between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever.
-- Virginia Woolf The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
-- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA Pogradec
Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux Pogradec The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf Pogradec
"If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me. -- Dick Martin Pogradec Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger,
as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is
when you r The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison 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 Pogradec
I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian >From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some
day I intend reading it.
-- Groucho Marx We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon Pogradec Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a
holding pattern over Philadelphia.
-- Judith Viorst "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" A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana Pogradec
Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing.
Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
-- Oscar Wilde "Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) Pogradec "I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) Pogradec
Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on
tormenting the generations to come.
-- Montesquieu I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.
-- Wayne Gretzky "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
-- Buke Ellington I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei Pogradec A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The
rest is trust.
-- Nanette Newman, British actress "God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Pogradec
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde Pogradec The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
-- Bhagava Gita Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Pogradec
"Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." (Gertrude Stein) "For others do I wait ... for higher ones, stronger ones, more triumphant ones, merrier ones, for such as are built squarely in body and soul: laughing lions must come." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
-- Emiliano Zapata "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind
and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the
coachin Pogradec A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The
rest is trust.
-- Nanette Newman, British actress I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf Pogradec
"I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Facts are the enemy of truth.
- Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in
every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was
doing spying.
-- Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets for spying, in an i Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton Pogradec blah "You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons Pogradec
