"Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good
marriage
-- Martin Luther An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
-- Robert A. Humphrey "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle
enough of them.
-- Flannery O'Connor Koprivnica and Krizevci The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky Koprivnica and Krizevci
Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre All television is children's television.
-- Richard P. Adler Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
- Paul Erdos Koprivnica and Krizevci Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something
different.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from
both sides.
-- Margaret Thatcher Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw Koprivnica and Krizevci
When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is
simply one of those things which happen from time to time.
-- Edward P. Tryon All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
-- Stanislaw J. Lem My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X Koprivnica and Krizevci Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx "The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) Koprivnica and Krizevci
Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours "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) We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill "By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) Koprivnica and Krizevci However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
-- Oscar Wilde Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard Koprivnica and Krizevci
The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.
- Henry Kissinger The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein Koprivnica and Krizevci "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 Koprivnica and Krizevci
Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
-- Erica Jong For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of
pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.
-- Lyster "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Koprivnica and Krizevci Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
-- Sioux Indian Prayer A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana Koprivnica and Krizevci
Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) "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) "There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses Koprivnica and Krizevci I still live.
-- Daniel Webster, dying words I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu Koprivnica and Krizevci
The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell "Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem
mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's
chara There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's
age.
-- Modern Maturity Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something
different.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine Koprivnica and Krizevci There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
neighborhood.
-- Maya Angelou Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
-- Carl Zwanzig Koprivnica and Krizevci
No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II Koprivnica and Krizevci "The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn "Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) Koprivnica and Krizevci
To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it;
whenever you're right, shut up.
-- Ogden Nash 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 I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including:
* Both of your socks should always be the same color
* Or they should at least both be fairly dark
-- Dave Barry 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 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 Koprivnica and Krizevci "I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. Koprivnica and Krizevci
Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely
to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was
doing spying.
-- Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets for spying, in an i "If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) What's new? Most of my wife. Koprivnica and Krizevci Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
-- Anonymous Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford Koprivnica and Krizevci
