The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue.
-- Anonymous "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one
should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do
not allow Shumen In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott 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 "Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) Shumen
The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich "Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau Shumen Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be
built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
-- Anne S Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
-- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act i. Sc. 1. Shumen
If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
-- Scott Adams The west wasn't won on salad.
-- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
-- Erica Jong "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) "I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Shumen A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose
-- Jim Elliott Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin Shumen
Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when
people laugh.
-- George Bernard Shaw With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away,
the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler Shumen The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house
as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
-- Homer, Odyssey, ninth century Shumen
"Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) "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) "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig
deep into the actual and get something out of that - this doubtless is the right way to live.
-- H Shumen "Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it." (Colin Powell) I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere "It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books--what other men do not say in whole books." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols) Shumen
A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that.
-- Shakespeare, William Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
-- Satchel Paige A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-- ee cummings Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
-- Anonymous Shumen "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law Shumen
If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
-- Samuel Butler "Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) Shumen I didn't accept it. I received it.
-- Richard Allen, National Security Advisor to President Reagan, explaining the $1000 in cash and
two watches he was given by two Japanese journalists after he hel Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
-- Anonymous As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 Shumen
How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
a leg.
-- Abraham Lincoln I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein Shumen "One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton Shumen
The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.
-- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi Shumen Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Shumen
Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous 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 "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers Shumen That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have
had any experience with them.
-- H. L. Mencken "To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Shumen
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane "College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're
the boss."
-- Anonymous Shumen I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. Shumen
