Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. Visoko Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
-- Henry James A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire Visoko
The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing.
Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
-- Oscar Wilde Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen "People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold." (Richard Thalheimer, president, The If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton Visoko All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing
they die earlier.
-- H. L. Mencken True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is
always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.
-- Friedrich Nietzsch Visoko
Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it,
there will be a fish.
-- Ovid The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute
for life.
-- Andrew Brown A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Visoko I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the
outward behavior.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban Visoko
Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau Visoko 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 "Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods Visoko
We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not
know what to create.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) Visoko "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) Visoko
They were doing a full back shot of me in a swimsuit and I thought, Oh my God, I have to be so
brave. See, every woman hates herself from behind.
-- Cindy Crawford, supermodel Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning
there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have
people all Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln Visoko Honor lies in honest toil.
-- Grover Cleveland Marriage is a rest period between romances. In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore:
? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its
duties.
? Work Visoko
Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
-- Chekhov They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
-- Antonio Porchi Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf Visoko Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
- Lucille S. Harper Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford Visoko
Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
what you are getting.
-- Anonymous Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwile careers in the
street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack
of u "Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 Visoko Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper 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 Visoko
The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
-- Niels Bohr A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
-- Jerry Garcia Visoko One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby
see only a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney and continue on their way.
-- Vincent Van Gogh Remember your dreams.
-- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) Visoko
The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke
or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
-- Charles Brower "I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always send them a plant to wish them well. Of course, it's a cactus." (Norman B "Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST Visoko The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion Visoko
"There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery Study men, not historians.
-- Harry Truman I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
-- Will Rogers Visoko Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and
cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
-- Tom Robbins We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours Visoko
