The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do
its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.
-- If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson Mackovac "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
-- Beaumont, Francis The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind
woman.
-- S. T. Coleridge Mackovac
No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana Mackovac "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with
the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover,
Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one.
-- Oscar Levant, to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee Mackovac
I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." (Fred Allen) Mackovac I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-- Gilda Radner Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the
opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
-- Oscar W Mackovac
The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Mackovac There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Mackovac
Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) "The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.
-- American Proverb Mackovac Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
- Sir Winston Churchill Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen Mackovac
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. Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
-- Martin Mull Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb Mackovac Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong
and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny
is but th Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-- Ambrose Bierce Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Mackovac
As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action
of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) In the blithe days of honeymoon,
With Kate's allurements smitten,
I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon,
And call'd her dearest kitten.
But now my kitten's grown a cat,
And cross like other wives.
Mackovac There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer "I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. Mackovac
Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
-- Igor Stravinsky Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't
take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates...
-- Anonymous Mackovac Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd Mackovac
They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a
brand new ending.
-- Anonymous 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 A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more
they possess.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke Mackovac Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy Mackovac
There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana 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 Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) Mackovac "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
-- H. L. Mencken Mackovac
"Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi 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
th "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.
-- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up
something appropriate and do it.
-- E. W. Howe Mackovac Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem
mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's
chara If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
-- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. Mackovac
