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Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
-- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
-- Al Bernstein Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more
they possess.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke Kuusamo blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
-- Isaac B. Singer Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the
really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
-- Mark Twain Kuusamo
Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical
deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
-- Albert Einstein Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley blah "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust
there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
-- Andre Norton Kuusamo He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Kuusamo
Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard "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) If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen Kuusamo Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) Kuusamo
"When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi "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) Kuusamo I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson Kuusamo
When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson Kuusamo "Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Kuusamo
"Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup "Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln Kuusamo These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.
-- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995 "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") Kuusamo
Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and
tomorrow aint as bad as it seems.
-- Billy Joel My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. Kuusamo "Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) Kuusamo
"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) One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
reputation.
-- Oscar Wilde Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
-- Jerry Garcia In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings Kuusamo The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) Kuusamo
We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
-- Woodrow Wyatt The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the
faculty of laughter.
-- Joseph Addison There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Kuusamo I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked
me in the cellar.
-- Anonymous "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) Kuusamo
"Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) "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 Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
-- M. Hirschfield "To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries Kuusamo "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) Kuusamo
Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo Kuusamo For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries Kuusamo
