A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley "The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted.
-- Anonymous Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
-- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act i. Sc. 1. Asenovgrad I don't feel good.
-- Luther Burbank, dying words He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson Asenovgrad
Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own
language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) "God is dead: but considering the state Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom) How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer Asenovgrad Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings Asenovgrad
"Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement
speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have
th Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) Asenovgrad "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons Asenovgrad
"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) I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is
the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be
cr 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 I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White Asenovgrad We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we
were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
-- John Stuart Mill Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and
tomorrow aint as bad as it seems.
-- Billy Joel The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be
feasible.
- A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop Asenovgrad
Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me. -- Dick Martin Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw Asenovgrad "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little
plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.
-- Ha Asenovgrad
Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato "And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to 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 The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy
together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back
on at Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
-- Pablo Picasso Asenovgrad Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
-- Igor Stravinsky Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
-- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they
study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.
-- Gerald Early, writer, baseball do Asenovgrad
English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw "The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." (Albert Camus) Asenovgrad "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth
shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.
-- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Asenovgrad
Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-- Indian proverb "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness
are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser
tha Asenovgrad Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-- Bill Stern "Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm Asenovgrad
The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
-- Mae West Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from
both sides.
-- Margaret Thatcher Asenovgrad "It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing." (Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises) "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( Asenovgrad
I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and
remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't
work and the Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
imagination.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you
yourself have altered.
-- Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom Asenovgrad I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Asenovgrad
I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed.
They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position.
-- John Hogan, Commonwealth If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways
to be, you know that there are...
-- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
-- Seen on a t-shirt If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov Asenovgrad "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST Asenovgrad
