"When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
- Lucille S. Harper A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to
do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did.
-- Anonymous Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau Rijeka Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and
therefore congenial to it.
-- G. K. Chesterton Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen Rijeka
Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea.
-- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves
great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates
the How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create
it herself.
- Anais Nin Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President "Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day." (Ali bin Rijeka Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake Rijeka
It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
-- Mae West "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
-- Al Bernstein Rijeka When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
-- Ernest Hemingway I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to
me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
-- Lucille Ball "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) Rijeka
Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein Rijeka My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a
philosopher.
- Socrates I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) Rijeka
"They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy
contests, but they keep the crowd's attention.
-- Anonymous To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its
prime function of looking forward.
-- Margaret Fairless Barber Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn Rijeka Every flower must grow through dirt.
-- Anonymous The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois Rijeka
If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
-- Benjamin Disraeli The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi Rijeka "Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik Correction: Instead of being arrested, as we stated, for kicking his wife down a flight of stairs and hurling a lighted kerosene lamp after her, the Rev. James P. Wellman died unmarried four years ago Rijeka
The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb Rijeka Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.
- Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep
up with software demands History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Rijeka
"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) Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
- James Stephens 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 Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) Rijeka Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein Rijeka
There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good
marriage
-- Martin Luther "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
-- Douglas Adams Vote early and vote often.
- Al Capone Rijeka The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin Rijeka
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 blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) "People drag their progeny around with them like a ball and chain, like some terrible deadweight that hinders their every move - and that, as often as not, effectively winds up killing them." (Michel "All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) Rijeka When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health,
knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
-- Roger Babson Rijeka
Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My
answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer
to that would be Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard
Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3 "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) Rijeka Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson "The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) Rijeka
