"It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) "Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous "Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) Straznice Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. we are for the most part
more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.
-- Thoreau Straznice
Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle "We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts,
in living color, you're about to see another first -- an attempted suicide.
-- Chris Hubbock, who sh I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. Good friends are good for your health.
-- Irwin Sarason Straznice As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are
certain, they do not refer to reality.
-- Albert Einstein The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song Straznice
The child is the father of the man.
-- William Wordsworth Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous Straznice Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we
were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
-- John Stuart Mill Straznice
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 "Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored..." (Herman Melville, Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. Man is a natural polygamist. He always has one woman leading him by the nose and another
hanging on to his coattails.
-- H. L. Mencken Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn Straznice Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
pure ignorance?
-- Holbrook Jackson If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of
something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than
cocaine.
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Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
day into your answers.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke "Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) 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 Straznice "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) "Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. Straznice
Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
-- Martin Mull I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
- Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable
statues If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau "Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) Straznice "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) "The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) Straznice
There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be
said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot
successfully I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
-- Francois-Auguste Rodin, when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) Straznice You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
-- Stanislaw J. Lem America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain Straznice
Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
him.
-- Rich Little I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries Straznice If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first
comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous Straznice
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 Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns I don't feel good.
-- Luther Burbank, dying words Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Straznice Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of
something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than
cocaine.
We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier Straznice
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 Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford "Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton Straznice "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland Straznice
I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Straznice "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry
that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
-- Dale Carnegie Straznice
