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"Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain Viljandimaa "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs "This is the first age that's paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one." (Arthur C. Clarke) Viljandimaa
Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.
-- Anonymous It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa "Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Viljandimaa Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) Viljandimaa
I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen Viljandimaa 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 "Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin Viljandimaa
If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac "In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) Viljandimaa "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they
study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.
-- Gerald Early, writer, baseball do Viljandimaa
I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you
have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.
-- Aldous Huxley Viljandimaa I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
-- Anonymous When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval
of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
-- Henry Miller Viljandimaa
Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain "It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality." (Francois Sagan) "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-- Indian proverb Viljandimaa "Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one
should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do
not allow Viljandimaa
Go away...I'm alright.
-- H. G. Wells, dying words Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
-- Vince Lombardi Viljandimaa I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.
-- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous Viljandimaa
"You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
--Loesje Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron Viljandimaa The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson Viljandimaa
Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung "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) Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) Viljandimaa Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde The child is the father of the man.
-- William Wordsworth Viljandimaa
Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of
poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.
-- John Cage There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be
paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's
life Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
-- John Adams, dying words Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard Viljandimaa May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe Viljandimaa
"Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no
religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear
of An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings Viljandimaa He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen Viljandimaa
