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It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
-- Leslie Jeanne Sahler The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other
is ready.
-- Henry David Thoreau The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
reputation.
-- Oscar Wilde In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson Translation Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
-- Anonymous Translation
"A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford We have only one person to blame, and that's each other.
-- Barry Beck, New York Ranger, on who started a fight furing a hockey game Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Translation The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce
intelligence.
-- Philo Vance It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves
great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates
the Translation
Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz "Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain Translation When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
the workmanship.
-- John Renmerde I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way
of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best
to become the best you are capable of becoming.
-- John R. Wooden, Practical Modern Basketball Translation
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 I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like
a black mistake.
-- D. H. Lawrence Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
- Robert Orben May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh Translation "Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles Translation
The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My
answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer
to that would be "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never
be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
-- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to "I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free." (Walker Percy, The Moviegoer) There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
-- Neils Bohr Translation Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) Translation
"The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland "I offer images; I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached ... But, we can only open the doors. We can't drag people through. I can't free them unless they want to be free--more than any "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) Translation "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Go away...I'm alright.
-- H. G. Wells, dying words For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman Translation
Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and
tomorrow aint as bad as it seems.
-- Billy Joel Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would
be doing if he were alive today?
1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War.
2) Advising the President.
3) D Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
-- Robert Orben "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs Translation "I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats." (Woody Allen, in regard to the KKK) "Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked
me in the cellar.
-- Anonymous Translation
The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West Translation Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning "Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) Translation
I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-- Dorothy Parker Guide to understanding a net.addict's day:
Slow day: didn't have much to do, so spent three hours on usenet.
Busy day: managed to work in three hours of usenet.
Bad day: barely squeezed in three ho "It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken Translation Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the
top.
-- Ed Abbey There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another
to the world.
-- Antonio Machado However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan Translation
The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis Translation If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. Translation
The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler "I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) 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 It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor Translation "Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
-- Elvis Presley Translation
