I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. we are for the most part
more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.
-- Thoreau The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.
-- Mark Twain He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
-- Terry Cohen I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
- Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable
statues They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
-- Antonio Porchi Kardjali The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein "The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) Kardjali
And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
-- Elbert Hubbard "For others do I wait ... for higher ones, stronger ones, more triumphant ones, merrier ones, for such as are built squarely in body and soul: laughing lions must come." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas
doctors rob you and kill you too.
-- Anton Chekhov Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw Kardjali Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door
and just visit now and then.
-- Katharine Hepburn One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby
see only a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney and continue on their way.
-- Vincent Van Gogh There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde Kardjali
We are the echo of the future.
-- W. S. Merwin The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman Tear open packet, unfold and use.
-- Directions on moist towelette package Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman "A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) Kardjali Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim
to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire.
-- Gen. George "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) Kardjali
We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Kardjali Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec "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) "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) Kardjali
"Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples'
decisions for them?
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken Kardjali Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand Kardjali
Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including:
* Both of your socks should always be the same color
* Or they should at least both be fairly dark
-- Dave Barry Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
existence.
-- Sydney Smith We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) Kardjali The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
gone beyond that.
-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic Kardjali
"Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism. --Heidi Hartmann [The Unhappy [You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having
passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it.
-- Anonymous Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall Kardjali "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
one.
-- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri "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) Kardjali
Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anonymous Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree
to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full
of grac Kardjali "Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett Kardjali
"One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price. I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I "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) "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) Go away...I'm alright.
-- H. G. Wells, dying words Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman Kardjali To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) Kardjali
"True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem
mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's
chara "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker
room is the temple where they worship arrested development.
-- Russell Baker Kardjali As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve 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 Kardjali
Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.
-- John Murray The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the
unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is
also the m Kardjali Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc
jockey is not allowed to talk.
-- Fran Lebowitz 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 Kardjali
