I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was
doing spying.
-- Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets for spying, in an i If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your
thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be.
-- Richard Mitchell, from Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been
widely regarded as a bad move.
-- Douglas Adams Zagreb 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 A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli "I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) Zagreb
Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they
oppose it.
-- Sigmund Freud Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem
mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's
chara Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce Zagreb "God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Zagreb
"We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should
live honourably.
-- Kant, Immanuel No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain Zagreb It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
-- Henry James Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles "I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower."
"Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!"
-- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" Zagreb
When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with
the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover,
The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins Zagreb I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and
members of the Senate.
-- Dan Quayle, Former Vice-President The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
-- Robert Browning Zagreb
God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at
the same time.
- Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair I just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Well, I think that it's a- it's had some difficult times but I think we have- we, I think, have been able
to make some very good progress and it's- I would say that it's- it's- it's delightful that w The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) Zagreb Anything too stupid to be said, is sung.
-- Voltaire To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
-- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous Zagreb
Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun "A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) "When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois Zagreb There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to
learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
-- Michel de Montaigne He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay "God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) Zagreb
"A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we
can do... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes.
-- Cybi The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde Zagreb The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-- Carl Gustav Jung "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Zagreb
"I'll endorse with my name any of the following; clothing AC-DC, cigarettes, small tapes, sound equipment, ROCK N' ROLL RECORDS, anything, film, and film equipment, Food, Helium, Whips, MONEY!!" (And Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken "My daughter has never forgiven me. for what, I don't know, because for years, she won't speak to me. She blackens my name in the press and makes me think abortion is an excellent idea." (Klaus Kinsk Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) Zagreb Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
-- Albert Einstein Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac Zagreb
"The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower."
"Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!"
-- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger,
as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is
when you r The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
wastes to Third Wo Zagreb Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide Zagreb
The telephone company is urging people to *please* not use the telephone unless it is absolutely
necessary in order to keep the lines open for emergency personnel. We'll be right back after this
bre I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
-- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" "Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) Zagreb University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of
them become real as you can.
-- Frank W. Woolworth The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Zagreb
True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is
always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.
-- Friedrich Nietzsch The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle Zagreb The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
-- G. K. Chesterton "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) Zagreb
