"The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) "Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." (Gertrude Stein) Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain Rijeka I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
-- Mother Teresa There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's
age.
-- Modern Maturity All television is children's television.
-- Richard P. Adler Rijeka
Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous blah "You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are
romantic dreamers and actually believe that estrogenic skin cream must do something or they
couldn't cha I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher Rijeka "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) I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
-- Jules Renard There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you
yourself have altered.
-- Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom Rijeka
How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create
it herself.
- Anais Nin The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth "Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at
heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels,
upon the lev Rijeka Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any
antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
-- Alfred Hitchcock Rijeka
"I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) "In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Rijeka In the blithe days of honeymoon,
With Kate's allurements smitten,
I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon,
And call'd her dearest kitten.
But now my kitten's grown a cat,
And cross like other wives.
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 Man is a natural polygamist. He always has one woman leading him by the nose and another
hanging on to his coattails.
-- H. L. Mencken Rijeka
Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of
humor is just common sense, dancing.
-- Clive James All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Rijeka We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we
respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
-- H. L. Mencken He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're
the boss."
-- Anonymous Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet
not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
-- François de La Rouch Rijeka
Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
-- B.F. Skinner I tried a mail order bride, once, but she was damaged in the mail, and I had to return the unused part for my full refund. I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman "I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so Amer Rijeka Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada Rijeka
"Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things.
-- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" "I've never let my school interfere with my education." (Mark Twain) "For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) I tried a mail order bride, once, but she was damaged in the mail, and I had to return the unused part for my full refund. Rijeka "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle Rijeka
"The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." (Albert Camus) Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye "Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) Rijeka In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler Rijeka
The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because
generally they are the same people.
-- G. K. Chesterton "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 "Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Rijeka My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.
-- David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes. Rijeka
Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
-- Ken Dodd "We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu Rijeka "Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Rijeka
If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.
-- Anonymous "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-
inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least
expect i The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde Rijeka Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous Rijeka
