I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to
learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
-- Michel de Montaigne I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the
calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
-- Mark Twain Hiiumaa "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) "If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair." (Samuel Johnson) When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't
have done.
-- Malcolm Forbes Hiiumaa
A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
-- Polish proverb Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any
antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
-- Alfred Hitchcock Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other
friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things:
and in that Hiiumaa To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero Hiiumaa
We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find
that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our
pain We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa "The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) Hiiumaa His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Hiiumaa
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover Hiiumaa Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Hiiumaa
Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that
no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
-- Paul Dirac Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels Hiiumaa Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it.
-- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was
doing spying.
-- Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets for spying, in an i Hiiumaa
I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
-- Nathan Hale This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been
widely regarded as a bad move.
-- Douglas Adams "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) Hiiumaa I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan Hiiumaa
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it
is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer >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 Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec 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 An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie Hiiumaa Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) "One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Hiiumaa
blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) Hiiumaa It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) Hiiumaa
The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes
in search of martyrdom is that the former expresses his idea most fully in death while the latter
really Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton Hiiumaa The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) Hiiumaa
"Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power
so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
-- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the
really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
-- Mark Twain Hiiumaa "I put on an act sometimes, and people think I'm insensitive. Really, it's like a kind of armor because I'm too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I' I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman Hiiumaa
That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 Golf is a good walk spoiled.
-- Mark Twain It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours Hiiumaa I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back.
-- Henny Youngman The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too.
When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing
extraordinary "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) Hiiumaa
