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 Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods Bjelovar and Bilogora When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his
cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that
Uncl Per cubic inch, your current TV set is perhaps the dumbest appliance in your home (and I'm not
even talking about the programs).
-- Nicholas Negroponte Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
-- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 Bjelovar and Bilogora
"The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land "It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns Bjelovar and Bilogora "... adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, quoted in his obituary, Time) Saying that Windows95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and
believing you've witnessed the second coming.
-- Guy Kawasaki He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose
-- Jim Elliott Bjelovar and Bilogora
"I think people resist freedom because they're afraid of the unknown. But it's ironic....That unknown was once very well known. It's where are souls belong....The only solution is to confront them--co He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec blah "Ideas are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and, following them, you reach yo Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
-- G. K. Chesterton The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein Bjelovar and Bilogora He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
-- Publilius Syrus "We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin Bjelovar and Bilogora
blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Bjelovar and Bilogora Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde "God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) Bjelovar and Bilogora
Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. "A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) "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) The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Bjelovar and Bilogora If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want,
and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.
-- Fred Astaire The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines
staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you
ask th Bjelovar and Bilogora
Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
- Robert Frost Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things!
-- Tom Lehrer The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.
-- Barbara Bush, first lady, 1989 Bjelovar and Bilogora Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three
children and no theories.
-- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") Bjelovar and Bilogora
Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) 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 The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Bjelovar and Bilogora Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The
average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted
to Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
-- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 Bjelovar and Bilogora
"Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
reputation.
-- Oscar Wilde When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
legislators.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Bjelovar and Bilogora "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Bjelovar and Bilogora
The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks "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) Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind
and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the
coachin Bjelovar and Bilogora Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
-- Seen on a t-shirt "Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." (Dave Barry) Bjelovar and Bilogora
"O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words "I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) Bjelovar and Bilogora "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 "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom Bjelovar and Bilogora
"There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of
our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
-- John Adams The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived
in this century. I didn't live in this century.
-- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going
to make fun of you.
-- Woody Allen Bjelovar and Bilogora Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
-- Ken Dodd The telephone company is urging people to *please* not use the telephone unless it is absolutely
necessary in order to keep the lines open for emergency personnel. We'll be right back after this
bre The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Bjelovar and Bilogora
