Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health,
knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
-- Roger Babson Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards "It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality." (Francois Sagan) Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are
capable of being.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Cavtat The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce
intelligence.
-- Philo Vance "The bite of conscience, like the bite of a dog into a stone, is a stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone Cavtat
Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman "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) 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 Cavtat When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you
don't know. He knows now that he doesn't know. Last year, he didn't know that.
-- Bill Parcels, New Engla Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne Cavtat
"This is the first age that's paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one." (Arthur C. Clarke) Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) Cavtat "I put on an act sometimes, and people think I'm insensitive. Really, it's like a kind of armor because I'm too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I' I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the
calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
-- Mark Twain If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw Cavtat
I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
-- Adela Rogers St. John Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind
and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the
coachin Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha Cavtat Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?
-- Michael Meissner Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp Cavtat
You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw 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 The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the
outward behavior.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Cavtat Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain Cavtat
She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle 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 Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
- Robert Frost He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill Cavtat I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if
he finds her.
-- Benjamin Tillett Cavtat
"One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) 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 "No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree." (Lee Rudolph) "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel Cavtat There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries "For others do I wait ... for higher ones, stronger ones, more triumphant ones, merrier ones, for such as are built squarely in body and soul: laughing lions must come." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph Cavtat
Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu Cavtat We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce Cavtat
Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
-- Samuel Johnson "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
-- Tom Robbins I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz Cavtat "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) "Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss." (Hal Holbrook, Wallstreet) The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason Cavtat
Golf is a good walk spoiled.
-- Mark Twain The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
- Lucille S. Harper It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three
children and no theories.
-- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
-- Beaumont, Francis Cavtat 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 A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) Cavtat
Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes
some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny.
-- George That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt "Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this
is true.
-- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its
prime function of looking forward.
-- Margaret Fairless Barber Cavtat The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their
powers as a State depend.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without
feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex,
the ugl For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne Cavtat
