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Bosnia and Herzegovina News - Stories from both the Washington Post and Associated Press for the last two weeks about this country.
"Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin "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) "Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Newspapers The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue.
-- Anonymous The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all
over it and put your name at the top.
-- English Professor, Ohio University Newspapers
Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
bathroom in the middle of it.
-- Nick Mirov Marriage is a rest period between romances. "To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without
feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex,
the ugl Newspapers Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
- Bertrand Russell
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A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton I have a daughter who goes to SMU. She could've gone to UCLA here in California, but it's one
more letter she'd have to remember.
-- Shecky Greene Newspapers
"... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr Newspapers He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
- George Bernard Shaw Newspapers
A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take
her off his hands.
-- Sacha Guitry Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Newspapers When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his
life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.
-- Francois Cavanna "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan Newspapers
And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts,
in living color, you're about to see another first -- an attempted suicide.
-- Chris Hubbock, who sh "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) blah "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? "The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West Newspapers The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers Newspapers
"Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch "No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." (Henry B. Adams) The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do
its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.
-- Newspapers When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry "I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so Amer As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde Newspapers
The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West Newspapers "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler Newspapers
The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green A White House well filled, a little peanut field well tilled, and a wife who will go to the Bronx are
great riches.
-- Poor Jimmy's Almanac "A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want,
and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.
-- Fred Astaire Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol Newspapers Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) Newspapers
It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld 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 Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
-- Erica Jong Newspapers Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard "There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) Newspapers
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 Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach "Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of
humor is just common sense, dancing.
-- Clive James "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Newspapers Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder Newspapers
Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Newspapers "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up
between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever.
-- Virginia Woolf A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted
by a little physical antipathy.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Newspapers
