You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be
sacrificed to expediency.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West Upper Secondary A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Guitry "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. Upper Secondary
"A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) 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 This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes
time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.
-- Fred Astaire Upper Secondary The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) Upper Secondary
Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
-- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) Upper Secondary I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the
marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.
-- Bette Davis "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) Upper Secondary
blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc
jockey is not allowed to talk.
-- Fran Lebowitz If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Boies Penrose, 1931 Upper Secondary Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not
impress the neighbors as being very much.
-- Zora Neale Hurston If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to
criticize others.
-- H. Jackson Brown Upper Secondary
"If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you t "In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavours to live the life which
one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
-- Henry David Thoreau "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Upper Secondary 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 "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor Upper Secondary
The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their
powers as a State depend.
-- Benjamin Disraeli If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
ethical infants.
-- General Omar Bradley What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren Upper Secondary If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Upper Secondary
I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you
will become a philosopher.
-- Socrates One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
- Bertrand Russell
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A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the
custom of shaving.
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin Upper Secondary The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday
afternoon.
-- Susan Ertz Upper Secondary
Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
- Paul Erdos To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great "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 Upper Secondary The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx Upper Secondary
More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite
without any wish to act.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one.
-- Oscar Levant, to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President Upper Secondary History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) "All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) Upper Secondary
Why doesn't she like me? Is it my hair, my overbite, the fact that I've worn the same shirt and
shorts for the last four years?
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated tele To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me
is another matter.
- Sir Winston Churchill The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles Upper Secondary There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries 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 May you never leave your marriage alive. Upper Secondary
There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at
heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels,
upon the lev "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford Upper Secondary The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going
to make fun of you.
-- Woody Allen By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put
over my kitchen table.
-- Rodney Dangerfield Upper Secondary
