Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I ask
is a chance."
-- Anon. I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates Kuressaare Here's to you and here's to me,
and I hope we never disagree.
But, if that should ever be,
to HELL with you, here's to ME!
-- Anonymous "Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein Kuressaare
Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
-- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that
M&Ms really do melt in your hand...
-- Peter Oakley First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi Kuressaare That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been
all along.
-- Madeleine L'Engle 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 Kuressaare
Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
-- Vladimir Nabokov 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 A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the
commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete
answer. In fact, women's total ins Kuressaare It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary
to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.'
-- Bierce, A "I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) Kuressaare
It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is
the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be
cr A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison Kuressaare Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
-- Emiliano Zapata "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 Kuressaare
"If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley "Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb Kuressaare If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 Kuressaare
Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Kuressaare I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady
in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me.
-- Dick Martin "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 Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
-- B.F. Skinner Kuressaare
Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
-- Hermione Gingold Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on
a date.
-- Caroline Rhea Kuressaare I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-- Sacha Guitry Kuressaare
If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
-- Chekhov The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. "Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." (Dave Barry) Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 Kuressaare "Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) Kuressaare
"Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all
over it and put your name at the top.
-- English Professor, Ohio University "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.
- Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep
up with software demands Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Kuressaare "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) Kuressaare
The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to
passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are . . .
grand "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) "If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Kuressaare "The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." (George Bernar Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. Kuressaare
blah "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
happen to him.
-- John Barrymore - last words Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
-- Lord Dewar Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette Kuressaare Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown "Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s Kuressaare
