Island of Silba - Island guide, travel information and booking for private accommodation.
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The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury Silba "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically!
-- Steven Wright Silba
"The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
-- Colin Wilson Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the
source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity,
ign He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
-- Edgar Watson Howe Silba Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson
articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are
apparently based Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell Silba
A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 There is more to life than increasing its speed.
-- Gandhi Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best
to become the best you are capable of becoming.
-- John R. Wooden, Practical Modern Basketball It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers Silba "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.
-- American Proverb For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of
pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.
-- Lyster Silba
"Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room
enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.
-- Fred Allen Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
-- Roger Babson The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone Silba The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to
substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
-- Iris Murdoch I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and
members of the Senate.
-- Dan Quayle, Former Vice-President Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." Silba
Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. "Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? I'll sleep when I'm dead.
- Warren Zevon "I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w Silba "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous Silba
"Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the
consequences.
-- Isadora Duncan Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
-- Gertrude Stein, dying words Silba 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 "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe Silba
"Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas
doctors rob you and kill you too.
-- Anton Chekhov We must become the change we want to see.
-- Gandhi During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Silba Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau Silba
All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken Silba When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
legislators.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-- Irwin Corey Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
what you are getting.
-- Anonymous Silba
"The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) 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 Silba The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp "We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe "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) Silba
There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb 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 Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Silba You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
cough.
-- Pearl Williams "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) Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of
responsibility at the other.
-- Ronald Reagan, Saturday Evening Post, 1965 Silba
"Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and
discipline.
-- Michel de Montaigne "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
-- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume Silba The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods 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 Silba
