In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein "And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to "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 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 He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West Hasselt blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( Hasselt
We can say 'Peace on Earth,' we can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have
not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us, then it will not be.
-- Betty Shabazz Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. "The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another
to the world.
-- Antonio Machado I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf Hasselt No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber Hasselt
My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
-- Maya Angelou If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man
will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
-- Henry Ford Hasselt Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber Hasselt
Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never
be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
-- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the
outward behavior.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Hasselt "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because
generally they are the same people.
-- G. K. Chesterton "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Hasselt
Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom 'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked
me in the cellar.
-- Anonymous If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis Hasselt The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the
purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
-- Anatole France Goodbye, Everybody!
-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. Hasselt
"That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) "Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected..." (Chuck Jones) To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
--Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) Hasselt Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-- Anonymous Hasselt
the social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for
all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation.
-- Peter Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.
-- Londo Molari Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by
trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by l The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings Hasselt I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
and bought jewelry.
-- Rita Rudner The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) Hasselt
"Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay Hasselt Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) Hasselt
Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it
doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever
sea Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
- H. G. Wells 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 Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc
jockey is not allowed to talk.
-- Fran Lebowitz The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted
in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism.
-- Heidi Hartmann, The Unha Hasselt "I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so Amer your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? Hasselt
Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery "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) Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something
different.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first
comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last Hasselt To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops
were side by side in the Italian village of Cremona. First were the Amatis, and outside their shop
hung Hasselt
"The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Mark Twain Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw Hasselt A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There
are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's
reall Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted.
-- Anonymous I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx Hasselt
