Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
- Paul Erdos 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) 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 Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
-- Igor Stravinsky "Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) Bansko He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
-- Publilius Syrus blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Bansko
It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by
the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off!
-- Douglas Jerold, 1858 "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if
he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli >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 "A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it." (Claude Rains, as Mr. Dryden, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) Bansko He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
-- Winston Churchill "All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) Bansko
If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model.
Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush...
-- Dawn French Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
-- G. K. Chesterton Bansko Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen "When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wro I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked
me in the cellar.
-- Anonymous Bansko
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-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
-- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that
M&Ms really do melt in your hand...
-- Peter Oakley He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose
-- Jim Elliott For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely
unnatural condition.
-- Robert Briffault Bansko He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) Bansko
Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
-- Martin Mull We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
-- Samuel Butler "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law Bansko Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer 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 "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) Bansko
"We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li 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 It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been
all along.
-- Madeleine L'Engle Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.
-- General Douglas MacArthur Bansko He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill "If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Bansko
There is more to life than increasing its speed.
-- Gandhi Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) The soul is healed by being with children.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevski Bansko "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) Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine The soul is healed by being with children.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevski Bansko
A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can
only read the title.
-- Virginia Woolf He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Bansko Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones
you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in
your "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 A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
-- Joseph Addison Bansko
"This is the first age that's paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one." (Arthur C. Clarke) "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw "To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.
-- Mark Twain Bansko The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost Bansko
Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur Bansko "Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of g You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana Bansko
Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal 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 In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Bansko While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in
every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The
premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool.
-- Kelvin Throop I Bansko
