Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
coattails.
-- Clarence Darrow Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future
generations Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
- Paul Erdos Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter Virovitica Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George bernard Shaw The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not,
the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms
with Virovitica
It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
-- Ray Bandy Virovitica It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more
experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat
soiled or torn? The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
-- Colin Wilson Virovitica
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
-- Albert Einstein Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor I don't feel good.
-- Luther Burbank, dying words The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw Virovitica When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
--Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" Virovitica
Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley "I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley Virovitica A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H.L. Mencken Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer Virovitica
Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is
merely a good excuse not to play football.
-- Fran Lebowitz blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau "I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Virovitica "One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
-- Albert Einstein Virovitica
"Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation." (Larry Flynt) Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet
not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
-- François de La Rouch "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) Virovitica "Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. Virovitica
Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg Goodbye, Everybody!
-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. Virovitica "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. Virovitica
"The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of
suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room.
-- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law Virovitica Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle Why doesn't she like me? Is it my hair, my overbite, the fact that I've worn the same shirt and
shorts for the last four years?
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated tele Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers Virovitica
Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
-- Lord Dewar "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin "Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em." (William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, II:5) Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
-- Oliver Herford Virovitica The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something.
-- Seymour Papert Virovitica
If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
-- Al Bernstein It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the
instrument plays itself.
-- Johann Sebastian Bach He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht Virovitica "I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear ... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived." (Rabbi H Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Virovitica
People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves
beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
-- Al Rogers, Global SchoolHouse Netw I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how
to make it interesting.
-- Milton Berle, when called to the microphone at the 2nd Annual Comedians Hal Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for
comprehensive health care during a candidates' forum, said he supported "erection-to-
resurrection" coverage. He later a "... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) Virovitica When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-- Ambrose Bierce In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley Virovitica
