Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little
plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.
-- Ha If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Krapina and Zagorje Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) Krapina and Zagorje
"Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
-- Lord Dewar "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Krapina and Zagorje "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) 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 Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert Krapina and Zagorje
Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) 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 If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
-- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx Krapina and Zagorje Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted.
-- Anonymous Krapina and Zagorje
Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
-- Alphonse Allais Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to
be a coincidence.
-- Jeremy S. Anderson Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard Dear Mrs, Mr, Miss, or Mr and Mrs Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action. -- C Krapina and Zagorje 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 Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill Krapina and Zagorje
Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good
results: drag behind car through puddles, blow-dry on roofrack.
-- Laundry instructions on a shirt Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde Krapina and Zagorje Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot "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) The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous Krapina and Zagorje
"Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal He who laughs, lasts.
-- Mary Pettibone Poole The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain Krapina and Zagorje 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 "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills Krapina and Zagorje
Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
-- Oscar Wilde The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.
- Henry Kissinger For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate,
the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
-- Rainer Maria Ril Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. Krapina and Zagorje If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
bureaucracy won't.
-- Hyman Rickover "Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god." (Jean Rostand) Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-- Indian proverb Krapina and Zagorje
"I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crowf Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or
failure has been dependent on the one he used most.
-- George R. Kirkpatrick The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson Krapina and Zagorje Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche "Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-- Stephen Covey Krapina and Zagorje
The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Krapina and Zagorje 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 A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
ethical infants.
-- General Omar Bradley Krapina and Zagorje
"Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) 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 There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Krapina and Zagorje I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain We must become the change we want to see.
-- Gandhi They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
-- Antonio Porchi Krapina and Zagorje
The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical
deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
-- Albert Einstein My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in
bed with her.
-- Lenny Bruce When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-- Sacha Guitry I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.
-- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the
House Bank scandal Krapina and Zagorje "Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be
said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot
successfully If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada Krapina and Zagorje
