A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
-- Christopher Morley "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon Velke Popovice Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story "I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio." (Joan Rivers) Velke Popovice
I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one
should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do
not allow Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and
joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not
as 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 True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo Velke Popovice blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy.
-- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln Velke Popovice
Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
-- Samuel Johnson Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen Velke Popovice "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) "I think people resist freedom because they're afraid of the unknown. But it's ironic....That unknown was once very well known. It's where are souls belong....The only solution is to confront them--co Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't
natural.
-- Bob Beckel, on term limits, CBS This Morning, 3/30/95 Velke Popovice
If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any
antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
-- Alfred Hitchcock The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle Velke Popovice Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they
oppose it.
-- Sigmund Freud Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett Velke Popovice
Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
-- Plutarch Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing
matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.
-- Amy Bloom In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley Velke Popovice I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais Velke Popovice
A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Health food makes me sick.
-- Calvin Trillin For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
-- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Velke Popovice "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) "We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen Velke Popovice
By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. -- Socrates Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Velke Popovice When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't
have done.
-- Malcolm Forbes Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) Velke Popovice
'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore:
? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its
duties.
? Work Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James Velke Popovice The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
it.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
one.
-- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri 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 Velke Popovice
I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." (Alexander Pope) Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The
premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool.
-- Kelvin Throop I Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad Velke Popovice The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to
me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
-- Lucille Ball 'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings Velke Popovice
Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
pure ignorance?
-- Holbrook Jackson I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer There is more to life than increasing its speed.
-- Gandhi The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to
substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
-- Iris Murdoch May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. Velke Popovice Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
-- Robert Benchley 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 Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein Velke Popovice
Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature
intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times
worse tha Velke Popovice All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
-- George Saunders - last words Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
-- Lord Dewar Velke Popovice
