The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
-- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers "Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Sisak and Moslavina "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) "Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac Sisak and Moslavina
They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to
get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
-- Billie Holliday Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this
is not difficult.
-- Charlotte Whitton Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
- H. G. Wells Sisak and Moslavina The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy
together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back
on at Sisak and Moslavina
Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
-- Polish proverb He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Sisak and Moslavina It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais 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 "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) Sisak and Moslavina
A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken "The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford Sisak and Moslavina All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
-- Anonymous I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN Sisak and Moslavina
A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
ages as much as 20 years.
-- Anonymous "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Sisak and Moslavina We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. Sisak and Moslavina
"... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers Sisak and Moslavina If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
-- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another
to the world.
-- Antonio Machado "It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) Sisak and Moslavina
If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama "To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) Sisak and Moslavina Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife In the end, everything is a gag.
- Charlie Chaplin I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for
half the money.
-- Arthur Godfrey Sisak and Moslavina
That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the
lessons that history has to teach.
-- Aldous Huxley True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is
always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.
-- Friedrich Nietzsch It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley Sisak and Moslavina "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) "There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips." (Elsa Lanchester) Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Sisak and Moslavina
Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. we are for the most part
more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.
-- Thoreau "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) Sisak and Moslavina The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
-- Roger Simon I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
-- Mother Teresa We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours Sisak and Moslavina
I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't
certain we knew better.
-- George Bird Evans You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By
giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you
will "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose
-- Jim Elliott "Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) Sisak and Moslavina The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson Sisak and Moslavina
The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in
opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
-- Sydney Smith Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat
guy in the third row exists?
-- Woody Allen Sisak and Moslavina "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
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