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Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does
not change his mind.
-- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the
really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
-- Mark Twain Todorov, Nayden I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain "Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) Todorov, Nayden
Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Steven Wright "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it,
Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me
de Todorov, Nayden They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) Todorov, Nayden
The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain
terrible.
-- Jean Kerr Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind
and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the
coachin The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would
have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I
didn' I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again.
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show Todorov, Nayden The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're
the boss."
-- Anonymous Todorov, Nayden
The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is
that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one.
-- Anonymous The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde Todorov, Nayden Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances
continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the
distance Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde >From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea--written in red on every
beachhead form Australia to Tokyo--There is no substitute for victory!
-- General Douglas MacArthur Todorov, Nayden
"Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the
instrument plays itself.
-- Johann Sebastian Bach Todorov, Nayden A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) Todorov, Nayden
It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln 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 The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw Todorov, Nayden Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to
realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and
grie "The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur Todorov, Nayden
blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a
thing to be acheived.
-- William Jennings Bryant Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde Todorov, Nayden You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac .. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over
myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long
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To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
- Cicero He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we
respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
-- H. L. Mencken "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Todorov, Nayden "Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
-- B.F. Skinner When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
-- Clarence Darrow Todorov, Nayden
There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) "I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I Todorov, Nayden Here's to you and here's to me,
and I hope we never disagree.
But, if that should ever be,
to HELL with you, here's to ME!
-- Anonymous When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crow Todorov, Nayden
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 As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-- Abraham Lincoln The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical
deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
-- Albert Einstein A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous Todorov, Nayden "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) "I'll endorse with my name any of the following; clothing AC-DC, cigarettes, small tapes, sound equipment, ROCK N' ROLL RECORDS, anything, film, and film equipment, Food, Helium, Whips, MONEY!!" (And In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler Todorov, Nayden
"In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
-- Kenneth H. Blanchard It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing. "Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) Todorov, Nayden Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's
age.
-- Modern Maturity Todorov, Nayden
