A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing.
-- George Benard Shaw Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.
-- King George V Paldiski 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 Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx Paldiski
I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.
-- Barbara Bush, first lady, 1989 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 "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
-- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying Paldiski "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis Paldiski
"Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are
capable of being.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Paldiski "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) Paldiski
Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment... it's
exciting to have a real crisis on your hands.
-- Margaret Thatcher, on the Falklands Conflict Paldiski Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Boies Penrose, 1931 "I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) Paldiski
Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: "Give little, give seldom, and above all,
give grudgingly." Otherwise, what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of
sexual Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb Paldiski The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy
the waking hours much more.
-- Woody Allen The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad Paldiski
If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of
something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than
cocaine.
Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender "One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Paldiski One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anonymous Paldiski
Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost "Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do
what he was afraid he couldn't do.
-- Henry Ford Paldiski Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle Paldiski
As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another
to the world.
-- Antonio Machado Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
existence.
-- Sydney Smith Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner Paldiski The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain Paldiski
Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.
-- Mark Twain Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm Paldiski Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be
feasible.
- A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't
natural.
-- Bob Beckel, on term limits, CBS This Morning, 3/30/95 Paldiski
If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
-- Johnny Carson I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
a leg.
-- Abraham Lincoln It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way
to bet.
-- Damon Runyan True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo Paldiski I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) Paldiski
"Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen "All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) Paldiski 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. "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) Paldiski
