I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle Nivala A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
-- Albert Einstein Nivala
The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James "I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac Man is a natural polygamist. He always has one woman leading him by the nose and another
hanging on to his coattails.
-- H. L. Mencken "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) Nivala The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley Nivala
"I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from
both sides.
-- Margaret Thatcher Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things!
-- Tom Lehrer Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own
language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Nivala I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams Nivala
Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
-- Byrd Baggett Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken Nivala It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
-- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who
take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
-- INDIRA Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. Nivala
After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare "I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) Honor lies in honest toil.
-- Grover Cleveland Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway.
-- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis Nivala The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken Nivala
God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) "I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take
her off his hands.
-- Sacha Guitry Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin Nivala Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker "To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman Nivala
A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken "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 "For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) "The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln Nivala Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of
fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality
and True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde Nivala
Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it.
-- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long "A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the
lessons that history has to teach.
-- Aldous Huxley Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do
what he was afraid he couldn't do.
-- Henry Ford Nivala "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) Nivala
"A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we
were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
-- John Stuart Mill I tried a mail order bride, once, but she was damaged in the mail, and I had to return the unused part for my full refund. Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell "The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) Nivala Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me. -- Dick Martin If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince Nivala
We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as
possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) Nivala Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find
out how to do it.
-- Theodore Roosevelt Nivala
Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely
to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
-- Igor Stravinsky "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country
could do under first-class management.
-- Senator Soaper Nivala How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create
it herself.
- Anais Nin "There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest Nivala
