"The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and
remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't
work and the Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best
to become the best you are capable of becoming.
-- John R. Wooden, Practical Modern Basketball Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
-- Alphonse Allais Teteven Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does
not change his mind.
-- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
-- Vince Lombardi Teteven
blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 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 No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde Teteven Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in
a car he sticks his head out the window.
-- Steve Bluestone Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence Teteven
If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
-- Mother Teresa Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach Teteven Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept
me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't
everythin Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins Teteven
I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle Teteven Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all
the time. That would be hypocrisy.
-- Oscar Wilde Teteven
"The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu Correction: Instead of being arrested, as we stated, for kicking his wife down a flight of stairs and hurling a lighted kerosene lamp after her, the Rev. James P. Wellman died unmarried four years ago I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the
advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first.
-- Benjamin Franklin "It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality." (Francois Sagan) Teteven Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature
intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times
worse tha Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Teteven
If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that
can be shot when it breaks down.
-- Russell Baker Teteven The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada Teteven
In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce "Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves
beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
-- Al Rogers, Global SchoolHouse Netw "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in
charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
-- Hen Teteven He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
-- Publilius Syrus The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright Teteven
"Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison Teteven Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson Teteven
You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
teachers.
-- Socrates It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
-- Emiliano Zapata Teteven I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and
members of the Senate.
-- Dan Quayle, Former Vice-President The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer Teteven
In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge "When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) 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 When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment... it's
exciting to have a real crisis on your hands.
-- Margaret Thatcher, on the Falklands Conflict Teteven "Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) 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.
Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers Teteven
My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the
slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional
convi Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats Teteven For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing.
Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
-- Oscar Wilde In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that
no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
-- Paul Dirac Teteven
