"By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln Umag Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
- Samuel Palmer "Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) Umag
"From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
-- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me. -- Dick Martin "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
-- Kenneth H. Blanchard Umag "It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
-- Oscar Wilde If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein Umag
As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has
come.
-- Victor Hugo I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the
calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
-- Mark Twain An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
-- Robert A. Humphrey If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton Umag The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- W. Somerset Maugham To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
-- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume Beginning in February 1976 your assistance benefits will be discontinued ... Reason: it has been
reported to our office that you expired on January 1, 1976.
-- excerpt from a letter, Illinois Depart Umag
Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up
our minds to walk boldly through them.
-- Orison Swett Marden The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
-- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 Umag Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Umag
"There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who
take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
-- INDIRA During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest Umag Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov "Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) Umag
Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. How could they tell?
-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
-- Rita Rudner The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation." (Larry Flynt) Umag Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry "No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." (Henry B. Adams) "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Umag
It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
the workmanship.
-- John Renmerde "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) Umag Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and
blows up the bonfire.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man
will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
-- Henry Ford "It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W Umag
"Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.
-- Anonymous Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph Umag The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time We are the echo of the future.
-- W. S. Merwin Umag
Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other
friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things:
and in that And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
-- Vince Lombardi Umag blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( "The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) Umag
Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.
-- Wayne Gretzky There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Umag "Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth Umag
Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, "I'd like some fries." The girl at the counter said,
"Would you like some fries with that?"
-- Jay Leno History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac Umag Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian They were doing a full back shot of me in a swimsuit and I thought, Oh my God, I have to be so
brave. See, every woman hates herself from behind.
-- Cindy Crawford, supermodel The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Umag
