"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 My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous Pohjois-Savo Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw Pohjois-Savo
I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all
the time. That would be hypocrisy.
-- Oscar Wilde Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem
mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's
chara "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
-- Anonymous When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already
were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Pohjois-Savo Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Pohjois-Savo
"A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
-- Libbie Fudim You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) Pohjois-Savo "A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken Pohjois-Savo
Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
-- Libbie Fudim Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had
never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
-- Orison Swett Marden Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting Pohjois-Savo There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics a "It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine Pohjois-Savo
I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being
brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
-- Cynthia H The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers "When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Pohjois-Savo Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to
do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did.
-- Anonymous You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's
arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
-- Jonathan Carroll, Outside Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away,
the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. Pohjois-Savo
"To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright Pohjois-Savo "No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree." (Lee Rudolph) "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. Pohjois-Savo
If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea.
-- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) Pohjois-Savo A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. Pohjois-Savo
A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
bureaucracy won't.
-- Hyman Rickover Pohjois-Savo Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
him.
-- Rich Little I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle Pohjois-Savo
Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous Pohjois-Savo "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) 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 The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. Pohjois-Savo
"A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) 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 To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to
finish without knowing what you have written.
-- Jean Jacques Rousseau Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) Pohjois-Savo Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
-- James Stephens If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that
can be shot when it breaks down.
-- Russell Baker Pohjois-Savo
Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau "For others do I wait ... for higher ones, stronger ones, more triumphant ones, merrier ones, for such as are built squarely in body and soul: laughing lions must come." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) Pohjois-Savo A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family.
-- Navaho saying Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous Pohjois-Savo
