True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it
is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
-- Charles Pierce I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James Lika and Senj 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 Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
-- Arthur C. Coxe Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Lika and Senj
I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen 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 If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Lika and Senj Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when
people laugh.
-- George Bernard Shaw Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
-- Finley Peter Dunne An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for
love is measured by fullness, not by reception.
-- Harold Loukes Lika and Senj
"I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos--especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom ... Rather than starting inside, I start ou The soul is healed by being with children.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevski It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine Lika and Senj Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard "Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain Tear open packet, unfold and use.
-- Directions on moist towelette package Lika and Senj
"Whether it is a black cat or a white cat, as long as it can catch the rat, it is a good cat." (Deng Xiao Ping) The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France Lika and Senj Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
-- Hermione Gingold Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the
top.
-- Ed Abbey "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) Lika and Senj
"There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The
premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool.
-- Kelvin Throop I Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware;
those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software.
-- Unknown author, Levitating T "Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) Lika and Senj It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon Lika and Senj
Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student blah blah blah blah blah "This is the way the world ends: not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot) _end]
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"Hello Kitty is an icon that doesn't stand for a "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) Lika and Senj Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller 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 Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.
- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life Lika and Senj
If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having
passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it.
-- Anonymous This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
-- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning "Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Lika and Senj It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels Lika and Senj
Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Lika and Senj There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and
inex I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley Lika and Senj
I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
-- Douglas Adams Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 "In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." (Eric Hoffer) Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-- Irwin Corey "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) Lika and Senj There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be
paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's
life It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman Lika and Senj
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being
brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
-- Cynthia H I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway Lika and Senj Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon Lika and Senj
"One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and
hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in
Heaven.
-- P. J A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference
between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I
don't know and The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
ethical infants.
-- General Omar Bradley If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your
thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be.
-- Richard Mitchell, from Lika and Senj Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
-- Beaumont, Francis Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes
some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny.
-- George "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) Lika and Senj
