If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? "I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison Gorna Oriahovica If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson "The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi Gorna Oriahovica
Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.
- Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep
up with software demands If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavours to live the life which
one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
-- Henry David Thoreau Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
-- Oscar Wilde, dying words Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry Gorna Oriahovica "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me!
-- Henry Ford Gorna Oriahovica
"What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from
both sides.
-- Margaret Thatcher "To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood Gorna Oriahovica Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
chastisement.
-- Ernest Dimnet "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) Gorna Oriahovica
Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Steven Wright There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx Gorna Oriahovica Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward Gorna Oriahovica
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
and bought jewelry.
-- Rita Rudner And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because
generally they are the same people.
-- G. K. Chesterton Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife Gorna Oriahovica Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-- Sacha Guitry Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov Gorna Oriahovica
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 I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.
-- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you
don't know. He knows now that he doesn't know. Last year, he didn't know that.
-- Bill Parcels, New Engla Gorna Oriahovica The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous Gorna Oriahovica
Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
-- Oscar Wilde "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin Gorna Oriahovica "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells Gorna Oriahovica
Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
-- Oscar Wilde Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan Gorna Oriahovica Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler "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) People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet Gorna Oriahovica
If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
-- Oscar Wilde Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
-- Rory Bremner This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper Gorna Oriahovica Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
-- Anonymous 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 Gorna Oriahovica
Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He
experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of
optic "For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be
sacrificed to expediency.
-- W. Somerset Maugham They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to
get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
-- Billie Holliday Gorna Oriahovica Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
-- Vladimir Nabokov A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is
something everybody believes, except the person who made it.
-- Albert Einstein, attributed Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu Gorna Oriahovica
Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you
have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.
-- Aldous Huxley Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. 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 Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton 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 Gorna Oriahovica The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the
false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
-- Salvador Dali "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been
widely regarded as a bad move.
-- Douglas Adams Gorna Oriahovica
