Magnetic Ink - Homepage of Klaus Alexander Seistrup, Magnetic Ink, Dianalund, Denmark.
You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should
live honourably.
-- Kant, Immanuel "Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Society and Culture He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles Society and Culture
Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc
jockey is not allowed to talk.
-- Fran Lebowitz Society and Culture There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's
age.
-- Modern Maturity Saying that Windows95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and
believing you've witnessed the second coming.
-- Guy Kawasaki Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 Society and Culture
If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
-- Chekhov As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action
of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
-- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
-- George Jean Nathan Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Society and Culture The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain Society and Culture
The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
-- Samuel Johnson Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Society and Culture "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) "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) The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
-- Publilius Syrus Society and Culture
A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed.
They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position.
-- John Hogan, Commonwealth "Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau 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 Society and Culture We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison "From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) Society and Culture
Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin Society and Culture Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.
-- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his
campaign pledge that there would be It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh Society and Culture
He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door
and just visit now and then.
-- Katharine Hepburn It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Society and Culture If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words Society and Culture
Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West Society and Culture "I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-- Bill Stern Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills Society and Culture
Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
existence.
-- Sydney Smith We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not
know what to create.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to
substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
-- Iris Murdoch "In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." (Eric Hoffer) Society and Culture Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan I didn't accept it. I received it.
-- Richard Allen, National Security Advisor to President Reagan, explaining the $1000 in cash and
two watches he was given by two Japanese journalists after he hel "I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) Society and Culture
Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington 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 He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
-- Publilius Syrus "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) 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 Society and Culture If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee.
-- Anonymous Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
-- George Clemenceau Society and Culture
"To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) 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 "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb Society and Culture Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
-- James Stephens Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Society and Culture
