Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.
-- King George V "Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation." (Larry Flynt) Sarajevo "In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) "Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) "Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) Sarajevo
A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who
marries a man to reform him.
-- Elbert Hubbard Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen Sarajevo As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust
there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
-- Andre Norton The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above
weakness Sarajevo
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it
is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
- Karl Wallenda What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) Sarajevo Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous >From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) Sarajevo
Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
-- Adela Rogers St. John Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron Sarajevo Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Sarajevo
No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood "... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton Sarajevo A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana Sarajevo
If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
-- G. K. Chesterton "I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to
do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did.
-- Anonymous They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.
-- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the
House Bank scandal Sarajevo There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
imagination.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson 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 If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton Sarajevo
Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper Sarajevo I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
-- Elvis Presley Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous Sarajevo
Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. "Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) Sarajevo "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the
second, "For my best friend."
-- Anonymous Sarajevo
You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius Sarajevo Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson Sarajevo
The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the
consequences.
-- Isadora Duncan If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous Sarajevo "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln Sarajevo
I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming "When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
-- George Santayana Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What
do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came
back with ano Sarajevo The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
-- Francois-Auguste Rodin, when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues Sarajevo
