To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of
genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland 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 Krapina We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing
popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.
-- Dave Barry A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) Krapina
Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi "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) If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa Krapina My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval
of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
-- Henry Miller Krapina
He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem
mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's
chara If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
-- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry Krapina Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with
the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
-- Cynthia Heimel When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. Krapina
Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
it.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
-- Buke Ellington My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the
slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional
convi Krapina Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree
to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full
of grac America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee "Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) Krapina
Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
-- Libbie Fudim My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician 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 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 "Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) Krapina A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu All you need is love.
-- The Beatles, song title To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch Krapina
The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko "I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so Amer "Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
freedom.
-- Albert Einstein To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of
your life.
-- Abbie M. Dale Krapina I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Krapina
These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.
-- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995 Work is a four-letter word.
-- The Smiths (Morrissey) No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
-- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon Krapina "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield Krapina
"Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) 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 "It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) "I'll endorse with my name any of the following; clothing AC-DC, cigarettes, small tapes, sound equipment, ROCK N' ROLL RECORDS, anything, film, and film equipment, Food, Helium, Whips, MONEY!!" (And Good friends are good for your health.
-- Irwin Sarason Krapina If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
-- Kenneth H. Blanchard "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) Krapina
He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake "The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth
shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.
-- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm Krapina "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you
a hundre Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones Krapina
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 If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats Krapina Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass
produced with unskilled labor.
-- Wernher von Braun A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa Krapina
"So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
-- Emiliano Zapata "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) Krapina A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference
between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I
don't know and Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
-- Oscar Wilde Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly Krapina
