It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller "You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die Sisak Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) Sisak
"For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
-- Sioux Indian Prayer 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 Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford Sisak Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) "Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Sisak
"To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') "The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. "Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) Sisak They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware;
those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software.
-- Unknown author, Levitating T Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
-- Sigmund Freud Sisak
"I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
- Paul Erdos You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod Sisak I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
-- Nathan Hale The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy Sisak
All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung >From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some
day I intend reading it.
-- Groucho Marx Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Sisak Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) Sisak
Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some
simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion.
-- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 "That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs Sisak "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) I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher Sisak
If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee.
-- Anonymous Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-- Carl Gustav Jung "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Sisak Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes
your wife.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of
your life.
-- Abbie M. Dale "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) Sisak
"He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) "In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov Sisak I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert Sisak
Never moon a werewolf.
-- Mike Binder "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas "Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) Sisak Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
-- Al Bernstein Sisak
To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) "In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Sisak I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
-- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Sisak
This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
-- Jerry Garcia We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to
help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to
comfort us along Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
-- Anthony Burgess "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) Sisak All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde 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 Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov Sisak
