In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) Posusje "Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Posusje
Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald 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 "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh Posusje Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
- Paul Erdos Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
-- Lord Dewar Posusje
"Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of
something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than
cocaine.
"Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock Posusje 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. blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Posusje
"The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.
-- American Proverb If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future
generations "Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k Posusje Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
-- Booker T. Washington I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. Posusje
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in
opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
-- Sydney Smith No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Posusje "We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe "I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Posusje
Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
-- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason Posusje The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes 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 All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein Posusje
"If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard Posusje "See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the
consequences.
-- Isadora Duncan It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide Posusje
A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
-- Roger Babson Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon 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 We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were
reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing,
and Posusje Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Guide to understanding a net.addict's day:
Slow day: didn't have much to do, so spent three hours on usenet.
Busy day: managed to work in three hours of usenet.
Bad day: barely squeezed in three ho Posusje
"How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
-- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra Posusje Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
-- Anonymous It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings Posusje
"Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called
marriage.
-- James Holt McGavran .. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over
myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long
per The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde Posusje If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes
time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.
-- Fred Astaire "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Posusje
"Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own
language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) "Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god." (Jean Rostand) Posusje "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
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