A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana "There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein Osijek I still live.
-- Daniel Webster, dying words The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr Osijek
Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and
therefore congenial to it.
-- G. K. Chesterton "Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god." (Jean Rostand) "Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm Osijek Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. Osijek
To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways
to be, you know that there are...
-- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric "It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing." (Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises) It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a
few grains of corn now and then."
-- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, Osijek It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
-- Emiliano Zapata Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!
-- Dr. Strangelove "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) Osijek
"I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis Osijek "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your
girdle when your hips stick.
-- Ogden Nash Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
-- Satchel Paige Osijek
Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me. -- Dick Martin The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) Osijek Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner Osijek
It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran "I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James Osijek Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot Osijek
Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and
joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not
as I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard Osijek Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie "'Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!'" (Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass) Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous Osijek
The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
-- Robert M. Pirsig When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall
looking frantic.
-- Steven Wright Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie Osijek The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
- unknown We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest Osijek
"Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama Osijek The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other
is ready.
-- Henry David Thoreau 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 Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville Osijek
Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
-- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.
-- General Douglas MacArthur A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no
religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear
of Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
-- Lord Dewar Osijek Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to
heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need
more supervision.
-- Lynn The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley Osijek
He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. Osijek Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
-- James Stephens Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns Osijek
