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The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their
powers as a State depend.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books--what other men do not say in whole books." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols) I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. Novi Vinodolski "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Never moon a werewolf.
-- Mike Binder Novi Vinodolski
It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they
are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
-- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man 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 There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and
inex Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
day into your answers.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke Novi Vinodolski The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson Novi Vinodolski
Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams 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 "I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs
long enough."
-- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) Novi Vinodolski >From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers They were doing a full back shot of me in a swimsuit and I thought, Oh my God, I have to be so
brave. See, every woman hates herself from behind.
-- Cindy Crawford, supermodel Novi Vinodolski
We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were
reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing,
and "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) Novi Vinodolski There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran "Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and
cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
-- Tom Robbins Novi Vinodolski
"Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I
was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper.
-- Smith & Jones In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken Novi Vinodolski Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz Novi Vinodolski
I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr "One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) "The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi Novi Vinodolski Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is
thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.
-- Henry Wadsworth Lo "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 Novi Vinodolski
"There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz Novi Vinodolski To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of
fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality
and You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman Novi Vinodolski
I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell "If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli Novi Vinodolski To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman Novi Vinodolski
If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost >From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea--written in red on every
beachhead form Australia to Tokyo--There is no substitute for victory!
-- General Douglas MacArthur And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie Novi Vinodolski And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
-- Karl Wallenda Novi Vinodolski
"No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." (Henry B. Adams) "Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up
something appropriate and do it.
-- E. W. Howe All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder Novi Vinodolski Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Boies Penrose, 1931 Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
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"Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 "Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) A White House well filled, a little peanut field well tilled, and a wife who will go to the Bronx are
great riches.
-- Poor Jimmy's Almanac We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow Novi Vinodolski "There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips." (Elsa Lanchester) 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 "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) Novi Vinodolski
