When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't
have done.
-- Malcolm Forbes I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) "When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) Stari Majdan The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your
thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be.
-- Richard Mitchell, from Stari Majdan
The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have
to shave twice a day.
-- Adlai Stevenson True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler Stari Majdan An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy
contests, but they keep the crowd's attention.
-- Anonymous Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the
custom of shaving.
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it;
whenever you're right, shut up.
-- Ogden Nash Stari Majdan
If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
-- Johnny Carson It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by
the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off!
-- Douglas Jerold, 1858 In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
-- Christopher Morley There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a
natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun Stari Majdan As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln Just buy a box of popcorn and a Coca-Cola and sit back and watch.
-- James Carville, Clinton advisor, offering advice for Democrats on the term-limits vote in the
House Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday
afternoon.
-- Susan Ertz Stari Majdan
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to
heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need
more supervision.
-- Lynn I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and
members of the Senate.
-- Dan Quayle, Former Vice-President "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) Stari Majdan Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
freedom.
-- Albert Einstein "The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( Stari Majdan
However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.
-- R. Scott Richards Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
- James Stephens Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau Stari Majdan Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Stari Majdan
The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
-- Martin Mull "My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go." (Oscar Wilde, his last recorded words) "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Stari Majdan Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
-- Henry James Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give. -- Cass Daley Stari Majdan
Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not
impress the neighbors as being very much.
-- Zora Neale Hurston The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
- Lucille S. Harper Stari Majdan All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein We are the echo of the future.
-- W. S. Merwin "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) Stari Majdan
You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going
to make fun of you.
-- Woody Allen I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the
calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
-- Mark Twain Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't
natural.
-- Bob Beckel, on term limits, CBS This Morning, 3/30/95 I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
-- Elvis Presley Stari Majdan Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Stari Majdan
Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
-- Martin Mull Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
definition, is unassailable.
-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution,
of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always
be "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Stari Majdan There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house
as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
-- Homer, Odyssey, ninth century However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how
many can get through to you.
-- Mortimer J. Adler Stari Majdan
"The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
-- Chekhov Stari Majdan 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 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 All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce Stari Majdan
There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!
-- Calvin A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no
religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear
of Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim
to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire.
-- Gen. George Stari Majdan Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
-- George Saunders - last words Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Stari Majdan
