In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the
unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is
also the m The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window.
You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house.
-- Jean Ke Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
-- Plutarch I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson Olomouc Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 "To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson Olomouc
"When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
what you are getting.
-- Anonymous My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
-- Robert M. Pirsig Olomouc "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) Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
-- John Adams, dying words He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius Olomouc
Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln "One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung Olomouc To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik "To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Olomouc
Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen Olomouc Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.
-- Wayne Gretzky A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
-- Sidney Goff Olomouc
Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 "I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Olomouc By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin Olomouc
Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran "Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) Olomouc Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
day into your answers.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde Olomouc
Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his ownself in his own hands. Like water. And if he
opens his fingers then- he needn't hope to find himself again.
-- Robert Bolt from A Man For All Seas There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's
age.
-- Modern Maturity "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Olomouc Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 "I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) Olomouc
When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.
-- Tom Robbins Olomouc Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon 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 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 Olomouc
No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
-- Booker T. Washington The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this
is true.
-- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
-- Oscar Wilde "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) Olomouc "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) "Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) Olomouc
I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for
half the money.
-- Arthur Godfrey Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.
-- King George V Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five
isn't bad.
-- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 Olomouc Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare Olomouc
"The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) Olomouc The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
time Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
-- George Jean Nathan I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words Olomouc
