I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
-- Mother Teresa 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 The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
him.
-- Rich Little Sliven A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that.
-- Shakespeare, William Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) Sliven
Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find
that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our
pain "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais Sliven Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager "If I were still a critic, I would loathe knowing the person I was writing about. There's enough of an incestuous relationship between subject and writer." (Manny Farber, American film theorist) Sliven
It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
-- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing
changes and yet everything is completely different.
-- Aldous Huxley I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
-- Oscar Wilde Sliven "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Sliven
The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford "See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall Just buy a box of popcorn and a Coca-Cola and sit back and watch.
-- James Carville, Clinton advisor, offering advice for Democrats on the term-limits vote in the
House Sliven You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) Sliven
"The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday
afternoon.
-- Susan Ertz If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of
something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than
cocaine.
I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha Sliven "I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos--especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom ... Rather than starting inside, I start ou "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. Sliven
The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt "I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs
long enough."
-- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge Sliven To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
-- Albert Einstein Sliven
"Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire "Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but
as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!"
-- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu Sliven That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the
lessons that history has to teach.
-- Aldous Huxley Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at
heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels,
upon the lev Sliven
There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
-- Roger Simon Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings Sliven If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
-- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making Sliven
He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy
contests, but they keep the crowd's attention.
-- Anonymous "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi Sliven There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at
heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels,
upon the lev Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez Sliven
It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf Sliven Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy Sliven
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 A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that.
-- Shakespeare, William Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) Sliven I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I
believed in liberals...
-- G. K. Chesterton Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan Sliven
