Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington "The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) Medimurje A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) 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 Medimurje
If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. "A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore:
? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its
duties.
? Work Medimurje Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In
this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
-- Marianne Williamson The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine "Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard)." (Edgar R. Fiedler) Medimurje
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 If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure I just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show "It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Medimurje Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
what you are getting.
-- Anonymous Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. All you need is love.
-- The Beatles, song title Medimurje
There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) "Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
-- Sioux Indian Prayer Medimurje Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
-- John Adams, dying words It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich Medimurje
"No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams Medimurje "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) My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a
philosopher.
- Socrates Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
-- Winston Churchill Medimurje
The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
-- Anonymous If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw Medimurje Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are
capable of being.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Medimurje
Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
-- Ralph Marston Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain Medimurje He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
-- J. Heller You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) Medimurje
"You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be
feasible.
- A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop Medimurje When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
-- Lord Dewar No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. Medimurje
Women's liberationists spread the word that...the only peaceful family is one in which either the
wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous.
-- R. Emmett Tyell, The Liberal Crack-Up, 1984 When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland 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 My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell Medimurje A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
-- Mae West It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton Medimurje
Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams Medimurje "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince Medimurje
CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the
table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the
disg Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
-- Brian Pickrell We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton Medimurje "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed Medimurje
