When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his ownself in his own hands. Like water. And if he
opens his fingers then- he needn't hope to find himself again.
-- Robert Bolt from A Man For All Seas Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset Karlovo Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.
-- Londo Molari Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous Karlovo
"If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain Karlovo Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire Karlovo
then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
-- Al Bernstein The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
-- Colin Wilson The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as
saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball.
-- Deborah Tan Karlovo 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 "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf Karlovo
The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
-- Roger Babson "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. Karlovo "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
-- Samuel Butler I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Karlovo
It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine Karlovo There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to
be a coincidence.
-- Jeremy S. Anderson "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner Karlovo
"Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would
be able to endure it.
-- Schopenhauer It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.
-- Georges Danton, to his executioner As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln Karlovo "Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee.
-- Anonymous Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) Karlovo
In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the
next meal would come from.
-- Peter F. Drucker "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers "I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) "Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) Karlovo Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the
second, "For my best friend."
-- Anonymous It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anonymous Karlovo
A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey 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 It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde Karlovo "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
-- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg Karlovo
If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
-- Albert Einstein You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.
-- American Proverb 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 Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock Karlovo Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous
and dreadful.
-- Samuel Johnson Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
-- Anonymous A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Karlovo
MARRIAGE, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two
slaves, making in all, two.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) 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 Karlovo "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton 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 Karlovo
These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.
-- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995 A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who
marries a man to reform him.
-- Elbert Hubbard One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous Karlovo The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
-- Edgar Watson Howe Karlovo
