People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only
make $500,000.
-- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 "Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavours to live the life which
one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
-- Henry David Thoreau "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model.
Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush...
-- Dawn French Slavonski Brod Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
-- Jules Renard We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous Slavonski Brod
I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb "Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) Slavonski Brod It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it.
-- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan Slavonski Brod
Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-- Irwin Corey The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings Slavonski Brod Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Slavonski Brod
There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
-- Neils Bohr A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
-- Red Buttons The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner Slavonski Brod Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton We have only one person to blame, and that's each other.
-- Barry Beck, New York Ranger, on who started a fight furing a hockey game Saying that Windows95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and
believing you've witnessed the second coming.
-- Guy Kawasaki Slavonski Brod
Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely
pleased to announce the appointment of David Steele to the post.
-- Philip Streifer, Superintendent We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
-- Buck Henry Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb 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 Slavonski Brod You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little
plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.
-- Ha I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa Slavonski Brod
Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) Slavonski Brod Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
-- Igor Stravinsky You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
-- Stanislaw J. Lem "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Slavonski Brod
The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine; as he
who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me.
-- Thomas Jefferson Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
automobile.
-- Billy Sunday I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous Slavonski Brod Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong
and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny
is but th Slavonski Brod
We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is
thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.
-- Henry Wadsworth Lo For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Slavonski Brod Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you
a hundre "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) Slavonski Brod
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 Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-
proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe
is What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling Slavonski Brod There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at
heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels,
upon the lev The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the
purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
-- Anatole France Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle Slavonski Brod
Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own
language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves Slavonski Brod A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy.
-- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery Slavonski Brod
"I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen "If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair." (Samuel Johnson) "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) Slavonski Brod your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet
enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p "Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it Slavonski Brod
