Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the
marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.
-- Bette Davis I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing
matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.
-- Amy Bloom Hvar "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) 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 Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken Hvar
CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the
table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the
disg I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through
self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
-- Helen Keller "See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and Hvar The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan Hvar
"I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is
simply one of those things which happen from time to time.
-- Edward P. Tryon "I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Hvar I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and
remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't
work and the Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for
themselves.
-- F. Emerson Andrews Hvar
When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
- William Jennings Bryan In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken Hvar "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Per cubic inch, your current TV set is perhaps the dumbest appliance in your home (and I'm not
even talking about the programs).
-- Nicholas Negroponte Hvar
"... adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, quoted in his obituary, Time) Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless 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 "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin Hvar Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs Hvar
I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at
the same time.
- Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has
come.
-- Victor Hugo Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens Hvar My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in
bed with her.
-- Lenny Bruce Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be
built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
-- Anne S Hvar
"Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to
contact us.
-- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt Hvar That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton "Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
-- Colin Wilson Hvar
A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
-- Joseph Addison I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again.
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) Hvar If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
-- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert Hvar
"Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the
time by watching the second hand of a clock.
-- Ben Hecht Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. Hvar An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for
love is measured by fullness, not by reception.
-- Harold Loukes After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely
pleased to announce the appointment of David Steele to the post.
-- Philip Streifer, Superintendent I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton Hvar
You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely
unnatural condition.
-- Robert Briffault Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his
cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that
Uncl "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) Hvar Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
what you are getting.
-- Anonymous God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra Hvar
"When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz 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 Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot Hvar I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.
-- King George V Hvar
