However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) I'll sleep when I'm dead.
- Warren Zevon Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle Usti nad Labem "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Louis Berlioz "It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) Usti nad Labem
"If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create
it herself.
- Anais Nin "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) 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 Usti nad Labem What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. Usti nad Labem
The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including:
* Both of your socks should always be the same color
* Or they should at least both be fairly dark
-- Dave Barry Well, I think that it's a- it's had some difficult times but I think we have- we, I think, have been able
to make some very good progress and it's- I would say that it's- it's- it's delightful that w Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have
had any experience with them.
-- H. L. Mencken Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Usti nad Labem Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Usti nad Labem
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 "To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) Usti nad Labem Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and
illiterate sport fishermen.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) Usti nad Labem
Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with
the powerful, not to be neutral.
-- Paulo Freire The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were
reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing,
and Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde Usti nad Labem The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the
purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
-- Anatole France Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were
reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing,
and Usti nad Labem
"Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker Usti nad Labem "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth When Baby's cries grew hard to bear I popped him in the Frigidaire. I never would have done so if
I'd known that he'd be frozen stiff. My wife said, "George, I'm so unhappy! Our darling's now
comple Usti nad Labem
Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique
added to the armamentarium of political inquiry. Anyone who cannot negotiate Chi squares,
assess randomi 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 And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning "Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day." (Ali bin Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain Usti nad Labem "Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-- Dorothy Parker Usti nad Labem
Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels "It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books--what other men do not say in whole books." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols) Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. Usti nad Labem An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
-- Robert A. Humphrey "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) "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) Usti nad Labem
There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never
were, and ask why not?
-- Robert Francis Kennedy It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh Weaseling out of things is good. It's what separates us from the other animals....except weasels.
-- Homer Simpson, character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop
questioning.
-- Albert Einstein Usti nad Labem "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Usti nad Labem
"Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but
as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!"
-- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find
out how to do it.
-- Theodore Roosevelt "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) Usti nad Labem You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really
lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.
-- Herman Melville Usti nad Labem
If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
write better.
- A. J. Liebling "I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's
arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
-- Jonathan Carroll, Outside Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.
-- Georges Danton, to his executioner Usti nad Labem America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell Usti nad Labem
