Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find
that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our
pain If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only
make $500,000.
-- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 Zlaca I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
- Cicero The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Zlaca
LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the
influences under which he incurred the disorder... It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the
physician The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton 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 The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
-- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer Zlaca To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
-- Igor Stravinsky Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
ages as much as 20 years.
-- Anonymous Zlaca
Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler "No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree." (Lee Rudolph) "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Zlaca "Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides "In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) Zlaca
I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.
-- Barbara Bush, first lady, 1989 I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward I still live.
-- Daniel Webster, dying words Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
-- Sioux Indian Prayer Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli Zlaca He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose
-- Jim Elliott If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran Zlaca
Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. Zlaca My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde 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 Zlaca
Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage,
he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it.
-- Helen Roland Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain Zlaca "Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl could want in her life, except for good
taste in men!
-- Wedding Toast If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis Zlaca
You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat "Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, "I'd like some fries." The girl at the counter said,
"Would you like some fries with that?"
-- Jay Leno Zlaca We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous
and dreadful.
-- Samuel Johnson "I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free." (Walker Percy, The Moviegoer) Zlaca
Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
-- Terry Cohen Zlaca "It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
-- Helen Rowland The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee Zlaca
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 Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali 2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time.
-- inside of a Pepsi cap If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Zlaca "The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure Zlaca
Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
-- Robert Benchley Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal Zlaca The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper "If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair." (Samuel Johnson) They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to
run his, either.
-- Anonymous Zlaca
A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass
produced with unskilled labor.
-- Wernher von Braun In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law Zlaca "Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected..." (Chuck Jones) "The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen Zlaca
