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.
- Sir Winston Churchill You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be
sacrificed to expediency.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen Zadar Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan "I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio." (Joan Rivers) Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door
and just visit now and then.
-- Katharine Hepburn Zadar
Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau 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) If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson 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 Zadar As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
-- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act i. Sc. 1. There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's
age.
-- Modern Maturity Zadar
"Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
freedom.
-- Albert Einstein "Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) Zadar You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be
sacrificed to expediency.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Remember your dreams.
-- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine Zadar
The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
-- Gloria Leonard You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein Zadar How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
a leg.
-- Abraham Lincoln "We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) Zadar
Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 "A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) "Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." (Dylan Thomas) I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone "Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) Zadar Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature
machine gun.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Zadar
May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm
upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in
the palm Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give. -- Cass Daley In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb Zadar Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
- Samuel Palmer You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton Zadar
"Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
-- Beaumont, Francis Zadar Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward Facts are the enemy of truth.
- Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha 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 Zadar
People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne "The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Zadar I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
- Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable
statues I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) Zadar
A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
-- Edgar Watson Howe A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain "The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart Zadar In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein "Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) "Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) Zadar
Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx "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) "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find
out how to do it.
-- Theodore Roosevelt "Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) Zadar If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
-- Scott Adams It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker Zadar
Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung "What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux." (Thomas Pynchon) "Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to t It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
-- Mae West Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken Zadar blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
-- Ken Dodd I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James Zadar
