Van Struje - Alternative music show on Radio 101, Croatia.
"We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.
-- Mark Twain Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins Radio Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
-- Robert Browning Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) Radio
With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln 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 Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock Radio If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa >From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some
day I intend reading it.
-- Groucho Marx A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
-- Buke Ellington Radio
Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the
writing will be just as it should be.
-- Mark Twain For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate,
the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
-- Rainer Maria Ril Radio "Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
-- M. Hirschfield Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell Radio
"Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra) I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including:
* Both of your socks should always be the same color
* Or they should at least both be fairly dark
-- Dave Barry There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be
paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's
life There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) Radio I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf Per cubic inch, your current TV set is perhaps the dumbest appliance in your home (and I'm not
even talking about the programs).
-- Nicholas Negroponte Radio
I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is
something everybody believes, except the person who made it.
-- Albert Einstein, attributed Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does
not change his mind.
-- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks Guys are lucky because they get to grow mustaches. I wish I could. It's like having a little pet for
your face.
-- Anita Wise Radio Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams Radio
Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you
can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist.
-- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern "I should reproach him for not giving us enough evidence." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970, what he would say to God if they 'met') Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell Radio Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell Radio
"The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) ...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of
poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.
-- John Cage Radio "Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra) The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan Radio
No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a
thing to be acheived.
-- William Jennings Bryant A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Radio "It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power
so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) Radio
Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday
afternoon.
-- Susan Ertz Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
-- St. Francis of Assisi Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
-- George Jean Nathan People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck Radio A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi Radio
When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
-- Buckminster Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do
what he was afraid he couldn't do.
-- Henry Ford A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) Radio If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
-- Indigo Girls, song lyric Radio
Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
-- Oscar Wilde The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I
was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper.
-- Smith & Jones Radio He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose
-- Jim Elliott Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
chastisement.
-- Ernest Dimnet There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has
come.
-- Victor Hugo Radio
