Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature
intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times
worse tha Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) Bakar Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor Bakar
Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) Bakar The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne Bakar
What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He
experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of
optic Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the
really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
-- Mark Twain Bakar "What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature." (Francois Marie Ar "Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Bakar
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
-- Albert Einstein I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe Bakar "The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u Bakar
Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra 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 The soul is healed by being with children.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevski The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same
joke and still feel lonely.
-- T. S. Eliot Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell Bakar Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it,
Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me
de I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement
speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have
th Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead Bakar
Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
-- Sioux Indian Prayer "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be
closed for any other business.
-- Abraham Lincoln Bakar I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
-- Johnny Carson Bakar
"If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair." (Samuel Johnson) And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims
of intact ones.
-- Peter DeVries Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take
what I have to give.
-- Cass Daley Bakar No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is
the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be
cr Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own
language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Bakar
Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for
themselves.
-- F. Emerson Andrews No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese "Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) Bakar I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.... This is an ex-parrot.
-- John Cleese, Monty Python, British comedy television show Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline
luggage.
-- Mark Russell Bakar
Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life
of another.
-- Helen Keller Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. "I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) Bakar The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt "Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw Bakar
Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
-- Leslie Jeanne Sahler Bakar A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model.
Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush...
-- Dawn French "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) Bakar
Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to
do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did.
-- Anonymous Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson "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) "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) Bakar Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing
they die earlier.
-- H. L. Mencken If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
-- Elbert Hubbard Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker
room is the temple where they worship arrested development.
-- Russell Baker Bakar
