I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
and bought jewelry.
-- Rita Rudner "If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, All television is children's television.
-- Richard P. Adler Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston Kontiolahti "God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers Kontiolahti
Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
-- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
-- Al Bernstein Kontiolahti Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier Kontiolahti
"A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me!
-- Henry Ford We must become the change we want to see.
-- Gandhi A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. Kontiolahti Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all
I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it."
-- Jerry Seinfeld Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
- Paul Erdos "Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) Kontiolahti
Remember your dreams.
-- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey 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 I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement
speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have
th Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker
room is the temple where they worship arrested development.
-- Russell Baker Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the
consequences.
-- Isadora Duncan Kontiolahti Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Kontiolahti
The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be
built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
-- Anne S Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens Kontiolahti Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill Kontiolahti
An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw 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 The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 Kontiolahti Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
-- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting
married "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) Kontiolahti
"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 They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
-- Edgar Watson Howe Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills Kontiolahti The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford "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) "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) Kontiolahti
In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of
pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.
-- Lyster The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing.
Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
-- Oscar Wilde The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford Kontiolahti You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room
enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.
-- Fred Allen "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde Kontiolahti
The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good
results: drag behind car through puddles, blow-dry on roofrack.
-- Laundry instructions on a shirt Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln "If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." (Albert Einstein) Kontiolahti "I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower."
"Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!"
-- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West Kontiolahti
If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry
that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
-- Dale Carnegie Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
- Samuel Palmer then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor Kontiolahti I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen "Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Kontiolahti
If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
it.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers Kontiolahti We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin "One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) Kontiolahti
