The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood I didn't accept it. I received it.
-- Richard Allen, National Security Advisor to President Reagan, explaining the $1000 in cash and
two watches he was given by two Japanese journalists after he hel Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner Sibenik "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.
-- Mark Twain Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
day into your answers.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke Sibenik
"Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) "The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
-- Oscar Wilde I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
-- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" Sibenik "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not
know what to create.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset Sibenik
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell "Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected..." (Chuck Jones) A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton Sibenik It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Sibenik
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 Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the
opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
-- Oscar W Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton Sibenik A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
-- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting
married "I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) Sibenik
Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window.
You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house.
-- Jean Ke "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances
continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the
distance Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
-- Lord Dewar The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Sibenik 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 Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The
gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
-- Thomas Arnold Bennet Sibenik
Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and
remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't
work and the By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
a fortune Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) Sibenik I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein Sibenik
The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He
experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of
optic The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
- George Bernard Shaw "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) Sibenik You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something.
-- Seymour Papert Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-- Anonymous "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) Sibenik
"We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
-- Maya Angelou My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers Sibenik Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if
possible, speak a few reasonable words.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Sibenik
In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) "The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-- Irwin Corey Sibenik The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce Sibenik
"Whether it is a black cat or a white cat, as long as it can catch the rat, it is a good cat." (Deng Xiao Ping) Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the
commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete
answer. In fact, women's total ins The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
definition, is unassailable.
-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Sibenik What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples'
decisions for them?
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
-- Martin Mull Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
-- Winston Churchill Sibenik
Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes "Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours." (Dale Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman Sibenik All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian Sibenik
