When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want,
and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.
-- Fred Astaire Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton "A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." (Fred Allen) Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl could want in her life, except for good
taste in men!
-- Wedding Toast Sibenik and Knin I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain 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 The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein Sibenik and Knin
He who laughs last didn't get it.
-- Helen Giangregorio "Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Sibenik and Knin "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein Sibenik and Knin
"You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West Sibenik and Knin A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great Sibenik and Knin
I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window.
You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house.
-- Jean Ke No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
-- Booker T. Washington "Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details." (Andy Warhol, America, 1985) Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The
average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted
to Sibenik and Knin Vote early and vote often.
- Al Capone What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live Sibenik and Knin
Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 "'Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!'" (Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass) Sibenik and Knin If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa "Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer Sibenik and Knin
Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
existence.
-- Sydney Smith "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) "Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up
our minds to walk boldly through them.
-- Orison Swett Marden Sibenik and Knin You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Sibenik and Knin
He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
-- Buck Henry Vote early and vote often.
- Al Capone "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Sibenik and Knin "I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt Sibenik and Knin
"Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day." (Ali bin I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov Sibenik and Knin Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger,
as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is
when you r Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce Sibenik and Knin
The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My
answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer
to that would be There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
- H. G. Wells Sibenik and Knin Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen Sibenik and Knin
People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken Sibenik and Knin Well, I think that it's a- it's had some difficult times but I think we have- we, I think, have been able
to make some very good progress and it's- I would say that it's- it's- it's delightful that w blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce Sibenik and Knin
A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take
her off his hands.
-- Sacha Guitry Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger,
as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is
when you r Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. "Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) 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.
-- Crow Sibenik and Knin I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
-- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) Sibenik and Knin
