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When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
-- Buckminster "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln Finland "Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.
-- Londo Molari The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 Finland
Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
-- Sigmund Freud A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer Finland "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman
is one who can find such a man.
-- Lana Turner Finland
"I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats." (Woody Allen, in regard to the KKK) "Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) Finland My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no
character.
-- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically!
-- Steven Wright Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman Finland
I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
-- Elvis Presley "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman
is one who can find such a man.
-- Lana Turner "It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder Finland "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol Finland
"Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song "In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama Finland "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. ...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words Finland
Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is
thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.
-- Henry Wadsworth Lo All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) 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 Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-- Ambrose Bierce Finland It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
-- Leslie Jeanne Sahler Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three
children and no theories.
-- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester Finland
We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
- Paul Erdos Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce "Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) Finland "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth
shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.
-- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France Finland
"It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain "Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em." (William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, II:5) Finland Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is
always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.
-- Friedrich Nietzsch The soul is healed by being with children.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevski Finland
I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant 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 Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Finland Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke "I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford Finland
The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give. -- Cass Daley Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart Finland We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork
picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
-- Tom Stoppard Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. Finland
Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you
get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a
If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-- Abraham Lincoln "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Finland Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous Finland
