Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides When Baby's cries grew hard to bear I popped him in the Frigidaire. I never would have done so if
I'd known that he'd be frozen stiff. My wife said, "George, I'm so unhappy! Our darling's now
comple The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too.
When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing
extraordinary Silistra "To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the
writing will be just as it should be.
-- Mark Twain Silistra
"Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) "Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.
-- John Murray Silistra I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
- Cicero Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy Silistra
Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.
- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
can't read.
-- Frank Zappa "We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) Silistra You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec 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 Silistra
He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create
it herself.
- Anais Nin Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein Silistra "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-- Sacha Guitry Silistra
Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and
joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not
as A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne "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) "The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like
a black mistake.
-- D. H. Lawrence Silistra "To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up
something appropriate and do it.
-- E. W. Howe Silistra
"It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake Silistra Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. Silistra
cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
gone beyond that.
-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore
exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.
-- Slavoj Zizek "Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning Silistra To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong
and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny
is but th Silistra
Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not,
the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms
with Silistra The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
newspapers.
-- Thomas Jefferson Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the
opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
-- Oscar W If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth Silistra
"A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. "If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you t Silistra Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion Silistra
Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would not live forever, because
we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live
forever, Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery
increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control
futur Silistra "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the
time by watching the second hand of a clock.
-- Ben Hecht "The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is n Silistra
"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) There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and
inex Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that
M&Ms really do melt in your hand...
-- Peter Oakley Silistra The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
-- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for
comprehensive health care during a candidates' forum, said he supported "erection-to-
resurrection" coverage. He later a I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great Silistra
