A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really
lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.
-- Herman Melville "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) "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) Jahorina 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 Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
-- Hermione Gingold "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Jahorina
How could they tell?
-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to
learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
-- Michel de Montaigne "Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should
live honourably.
-- Kant, Immanuel Jahorina "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's
age.
-- Modern Maturity Jahorina
"The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) "If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." (Albert Einstein) "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) "It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee Jahorina The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous Jahorina
In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken What's new? Most of my wife. Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin "Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it.
And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.
-- George Bus Jahorina To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to
finish without knowing what you have written.
-- Jean Jacques Rousseau You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be
sacrificed to expediency.
-- W. Somerset Maugham An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for
love is measured by fullness, not by reception.
-- Harold Loukes Jahorina
"Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures--in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together." Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
-- Tom Robbins It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett I still live.
-- Daniel Webster, dying words "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Jahorina I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth Jahorina
He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're
the boss."
-- Anonymous People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
-- Martin Mull Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
-- Byrd Baggett When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill Jahorina Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it,
there will be a fish.
-- Ovid Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf Jahorina
He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
-- Publilius Syrus "We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain
terrible.
-- Jean Kerr Jahorina A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( "It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality." (Francois Sagan) Jahorina
Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
-- Samuel Johnson "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) "Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward Jahorina I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln Jahorina
I don't feel good.
-- Luther Burbank, dying words Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) Jahorina You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
-- Phillip Brooks Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer Jahorina
Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Jahorina I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to
know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.
- Clarence Darrow, A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber Jahorina
Good friends are good for your health.
-- Irwin Sarason "I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear ... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived." (Rabbi H The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo 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 Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Jahorina A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken Jahorina
