It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
-- Al Bernstein "An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid." (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th earl of) "Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein Svaty Jan pod Skalou If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large
organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.
-- Dave Barry May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. Svaty Jan pod Skalou
To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it;
whenever you're right, shut up.
-- Ogden Nash A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) "Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures--in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together." Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson
articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are
apparently based Svaty Jan pod Skalou Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness
are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser
tha Svaty Jan pod Skalou
"I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) Svaty Jan pod Skalou "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
-- John Adams, dying words Svaty Jan pod Skalou
Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks 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 "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx Svaty Jan pod Skalou Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary
to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.'
-- Bierce, A Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
-- Alphonse Allais Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen Svaty Jan pod Skalou
My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood "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 The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do
its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.
-- "That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers Svaty Jan pod Skalou A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones
you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in
your The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Svaty Jan pod Skalou
I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley "If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) Svaty Jan pod Skalou "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does
come, we no longer exist.
-- Epicurus Svaty Jan pod Skalou
This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that
M&Ms really do melt in your hand...
-- Peter Oakley "God is dead: but considering the state Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom) "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) Svaty Jan pod Skalou If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
-- Scott Adams I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not
impress the neighbors as being very much.
-- Zora Neale Hurston Svaty Jan pod Skalou
Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West Svaty Jan pod Skalou The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and
remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't
work and the 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 Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha Svaty Jan pod Skalou
My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov 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 a Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
-- Oscar Wilde I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Svaty Jan pod Skalou A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good
results: drag behind car through puddles, blow-dry on roofrack.
-- Laundry instructions on a shirt Svaty Jan pod Skalou
"He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-- Groucho Marx "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) Svaty Jan pod Skalou University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that
no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
-- Paul Dirac The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live Svaty Jan pod Skalou
"If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) 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 You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost Svaty Jan pod Skalou "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) Svaty Jan pod Skalou
