Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and
hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in
Heaven.
-- P. J Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
-- Anthony Burgess Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead Valgamaa If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man
will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
-- Henry Ford Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain
as marijuana...The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two, but can't
remember what No other success can compensate for failure in the home.
-- David O. McKay, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Advice to parents at General Conference of he
LDS Church, April, 1964 Valgamaa
I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
-- Albert Einstein The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard "People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold." (Richard Thalheimer, president, The Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous Valgamaa In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore:
? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its
duties.
? Work The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis "Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) Valgamaa
Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.
-- Georges Danton, to his executioner Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman "We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li 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 Valgamaa "I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free." (Walker Percy, The Moviegoer) If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg Valgamaa
University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger "Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce Valgamaa I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never
be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
-- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to In medieval times, people thought that evil spirits could enter a person through an open mouth.
These days they more often leave that way.
-- David Deckert Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
neighborhood.
-- Maya Angelou Valgamaa
"Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
toys?
-- Douglas Coupland A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is
when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.
-- Marcel Achard Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. Valgamaa "Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama "We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Valgamaa
"Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. Valgamaa "Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) "Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau Valgamaa
Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the
source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity,
ign "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi Valgamaa Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson Valgamaa
I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we
respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
-- H. L. Mencken It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde Valgamaa Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
-- Robert Browning "The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
-- Anonymous Valgamaa
To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating
influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the
commun "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) Valgamaa As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust
there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
-- Andre Norton Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf Valgamaa
"It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." (Mark Twain) "There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered." (Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom) "Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind
woman.
-- S. T. Coleridge Valgamaa "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) Per cubic inch, your current TV set is perhaps the dumbest appliance in your home (and I'm not
even talking about the programs).
-- Nicholas Negroponte The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard Valgamaa
Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) "I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes
your wife.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Valgamaa We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as
possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
newspapers.
-- Thomas Jefferson The child is the father of the man.
-- William Wordsworth Valgamaa
