"The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.
-- Sigmund Freud "Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) 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 Harjumaa May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-- Carl Gustav Jung "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') Harjumaa
Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The
gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
-- Thomas Arnold Bennet Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.
-- R. Scott Richards If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
one.
-- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
- James Stephens I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Harjumaa A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) Harjumaa
Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
-- Anonymous During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how
many can get through to you.
-- Mortimer J. Adler A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli Harjumaa "All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take
her off his hands.
-- Sacha Guitry When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West Harjumaa
"To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous "The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine "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 Harjumaa All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
-- Anonymous My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. >From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some
day I intend reading it.
-- Groucho Marx Harjumaa
I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery "People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult." (Anne Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future
generations Harjumaa "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
-- Bhagava Gita In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois Harjumaa
"That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous "Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Harjumaa Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
automobile.
-- Billy Sunday "I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower."
"Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!"
-- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" "That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, Harjumaa
If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and
remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't
work and the Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb Harjumaa Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali Harjumaa
The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) Harjumaa Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan "It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) Harjumaa
Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
-- St. Francis of Assisi 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 Harjumaa "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) "The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops
were side by side in the Italian village of Cremona. First were the Amatis, and outside their shop
hung Harjumaa
When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
- Buckminster Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin Harjumaa An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy
contests, but they keep the crowd's attention.
-- Anonymous I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department
store and he asked for my autograph.
-- Shirley Temple Black Harjumaa
Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
-- Carl Zwanzig Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
-- Arthur C. Coxe The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce
intelligence.
-- Philo Vance Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin Harjumaa 2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time.
-- inside of a Pepsi cap I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde Harjumaa
