Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the
purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
-- Anatole France "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage Kazanlak "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) >From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. Kazanlak
Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-- Ambrose Bierce "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e 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 "If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) Kazanlak Why doesn't she like me? Is it my hair, my overbite, the fact that I've worn the same shirt and
shorts for the last four years?
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated tele Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
-- George Jean Nathan "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) Kazanlak
blah "You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol "Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one.
-- Oscar Levant, to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-- Abraham Lincoln Kazanlak Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
-- Samuel Butler Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow Kazanlak
It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-- Dorothy Parker "Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
-- Alphonse Allais Kazanlak It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves
great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates
the A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
-- Phillip Brooks Kazanlak
The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware;
those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software.
-- Unknown author, Levitating T No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. "If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) Kazanlak A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their
graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort.
-- Sydney Smith A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. Kazanlak
We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 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 Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwile careers in the
street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack
of u "Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored..." (Herman Melville, Kazanlak A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
pure ignorance?
-- Holbrook Jackson Kazanlak
The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow "Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." (Gertrude Stein) The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the
commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete
answer. In fact, women's total ins Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous Kazanlak "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What
do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came
back with ano Kazanlak
A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine; as he
who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me.
-- Thomas Jefferson "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
-- Oscar Wilde Kazanlak Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov Kazanlak
"Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call
me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
-- Rebecca West, This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST Kazanlak "Frank and explicit; that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others." (Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil) He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Kazanlak
There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
-- M. Hirschfield NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows
how to make us disobedient.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw Kazanlak Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait Kazanlak
A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton Kazanlak You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy
the waking hours much more.
-- Woody Allen Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words Kazanlak
