"Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being
gummed by a newt. It doesn't actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle.
-- Molly Ivins "Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson "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) Zagreb "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
-- George Clemenceau Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana Zagreb
They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
-- Anonymous It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde "Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard)." (Edgar R. Fiedler) By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. -- Socrates .. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over
myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long
per Zagreb You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) Zagreb
When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
cough.
-- Pearl Williams "I've never let my school interfere with my education." (Mark Twain) If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? Zagreb Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
-- Samuel Johnson Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to
benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.
-- Ralph Mars "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) Zagreb
Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers "If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." (Albert Einstein) Zagreb Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
-- H. L. Mencken Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Zagreb
Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Indeed, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all.
-- Ogden Nash, Song of the Open Road, 1945 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. An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian Zagreb I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry Zagreb
I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
-- Oscar Wilde "Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine Zagreb If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson "Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. Zagreb
Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his ownself in his own hands. Like water. And if he
opens his fingers then- he needn't hope to find himself again.
-- Robert Bolt from A Man For All Seas Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
-- Jules Renard Zagreb For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good
results: drag behind car through puddles, blow-dry on roofrack.
-- Laundry instructions on a shirt There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power
so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin Zagreb
When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment... it's
exciting to have a real crisis on your hands.
-- Margaret Thatcher, on the Falklands Conflict Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
-- Erica Jong When you're away, I'm restless, lonely
Wretched, bored, dejected; only
here's the rub, my darling dear,
I feel the same when you are here.
-- Samuel Hoffenstein "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) He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht Zagreb Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline
luggage.
-- Mark Russell Zagreb
"One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) He who laughs last didn't get it.
-- Helen Giangregorio "No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree." (Lee Rudolph) "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) Zagreb "Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
--Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and
quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that
remains fa Zagreb
Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill Zagreb Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde "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) Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns Zagreb
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick "People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold." (Richard Thalheimer, president, The "I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you
can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist.
-- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. Zagreb We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) Zagreb
