A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland "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) Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to
us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
-- Jeff Raskin Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Karlovac When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I ask
is a chance."
-- Anon. Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland Karlovac
"You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) Karlovac The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings Karlovac
"From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who
take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
-- INDIRA I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) Karlovac To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin Karlovac
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 longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
- George Bernard Shaw "When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wro "A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) "What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux." (Thomas Pynchon) Karlovac "Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) Karlovac
A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire "If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating
influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the
commun It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde Karlovac You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) Karlovac
Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to
do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did.
-- Anonymous There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's
being off the network.
-- Guy Almes The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein Karlovac What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
-- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein Karlovac
A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
- George Bernard Shaw Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of
genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart "Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Karlovac Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous Karlovac
Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't
take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates...
-- Anonymous Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) "Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it,
there will be a fish.
-- Ovid Karlovac Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
-- Douglas Adams Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers Karlovac
Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five
isn't bad.
-- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 "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) There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson
articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are
apparently based Karlovac 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 "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
-- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn Karlovac
Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a
few grains of corn now and then."
-- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald Karlovac You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau 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 Karlovac
And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason 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 Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying Karlovac "I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
-- Buckminster "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) Karlovac
