May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I We can say 'Peace on Earth,' we can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have
not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us, then it will not be.
-- Betty Shabazz Prostejov "People drag their progeny around with them like a ball and chain, like some terrible deadweight that hinders their every move - and that, as often as not, effectively winds up killing them." (Michel If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
-- Maya Angelou 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 Prostejov
"Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) "Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson Prostejov If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea.
-- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau Prostejov
"One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent
crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry
inspe I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in
charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
-- Hen Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau Prostejov The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
a leg.
-- Abraham Lincoln Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 Prostejov
The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger "I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.
-- R. Scott Richards Prostejov "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great Prostejov
blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
-- George Clemenceau A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe Prostejov We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
-- Woodrow Wyatt The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Prostejov
Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
-- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting
married Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana "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) Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara Prostejov Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries Prostejov
Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises,
promotions, and other signs of appreciation.
-- Anonymous Prostejov "Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s Prostejov
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 The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr Goodbye, Everybody!
-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all
over it and put your name at the top.
-- English Professor, Ohio University Prostejov Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort "The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein Prostejov
In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott 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 Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) Prostejov The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink "If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." (Albert Einstein) Prostejov
How could they tell?
-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who
marries a man to reform him.
-- Elbert Hubbard Prostejov Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz "When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
-- Oliver Herford Prostejov
"The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
-- Satchel Paige Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Prostejov If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that.
-- Shakespeare, William Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. Prostejov
