Marriage is a rest period between romances. If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
-- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some
simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion.
-- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
a fortune Oulu Not to anticipate is already to moan.
-- Leonardo da Vinci The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion Oulu
"In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) "Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man
will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
-- Henry Ford In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been
widely regarded as a bad move.
-- Douglas Adams Oulu I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way
of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr Oulu
"Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
bureaucracy won't.
-- Hyman Rickover Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back "The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." (George Bernar "Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) Oulu He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
bathroom in the middle of it.
-- Nick Mirov "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) Oulu
He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose
-- Jim Elliott Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
-- Will Rogers blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) Oulu Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
-- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight Oulu
The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes
your wife.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show 'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings "God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac Oulu He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw Oulu
A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The
rest is trust.
-- Nanette Newman, British actress Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
-- Kenneth H. Blanchard A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) "We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses Oulu "To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Oulu
If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
-- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) Oulu And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley Oulu
Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
history.
-- George Bernard Shaw "To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
-- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde Oulu "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana Oulu
Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique
added to the armamentarium of political inquiry. Anyone who cannot negotiate Chi squares,
assess randomi When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is
when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.
-- Marcel Achard An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the
next meal would come from.
-- Peter F. Drucker "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) Oulu I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
- Cicero The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a
brand new ending.
-- Anonymous Oulu
When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama "Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) Oulu A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The
rest is trust.
-- Nanette Newman, British actress Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese We look forward to the time when the power to love of will replace the love of power. Then will our
world know the blessings of peace.
-- William Gladstone Oulu
Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.
-- John Murray Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley "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) Oulu Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. Oulu
