Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
-- Karl Wallenda "Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em." (William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, II:5) Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier Pula Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Pula
It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes In medieval times, people thought that evil spirits could enter a person through an open mouth.
These days they more often leave that way.
-- David Deckert Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous Pula If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would
be able to endure it.
-- Schopenhauer Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. Pula
Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) "To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
wastes to Third Wo Pula It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll Pula
Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
- Cicero "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Pula If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-- Samuel Butler "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 Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Pula
No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen Pula Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. Pula
We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Pula The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea.
-- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone Pula
I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and
tomorrow aint as bad as it seems.
-- Billy Joel Pula Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
neighborhood.
-- Maya Angelou "We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already
were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Pula
My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
-- Hoshang N. Akhtar If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber Pula True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is
always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.
-- Friedrich Nietzsch "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) "Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain Pula
"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 "I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde Pula Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
-- Buck Henry Pula
The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words
that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
-- Alexander Pope Health food makes me sick.
-- Calvin Trillin The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Pula Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are
difficult.
-- Lucius Anneaus Seneca The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
-- Niels Bohr Pula
I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh Pula "Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would
have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I
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