I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
-- Adela Rogers St. John 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 "Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables Asikkala Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if
possible, speak a few reasonable words.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
car.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Asikkala
When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of
humor is just common sense, dancing.
-- Clive James "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.
-- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 Asikkala For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
-- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is
thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.
-- Henry Wadsworth Lo Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon Asikkala
And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
-- H. L. Mencken A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland "If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other
friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things:
and in that Asikkala The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald Asikkala
I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke
or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
-- Charles Brower Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead Asikkala Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller Asikkala
If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind
woman.
-- S. T. Coleridge Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh "To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) The child is the father of the man.
-- William Wordsworth Asikkala The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) Asikkala
Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to
realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and
grie "Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) "Every now and then say, 'What the fu(c)k.' 'What the fu(c)k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future." (Curtis Armstrong, Risky Business, 1983) "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne Asikkala "The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is
merely a good excuse not to play football.
-- Fran Lebowitz Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig Asikkala
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 We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all
over it and put your name at the top.
-- English Professor, Ohio University "The feminists used to say that chivalry and ladyhood were ways of keeping women down and preventing them from standing toe to toe with the guys. Now you've got a lot of women saying that if a guy is Asikkala "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be
closed for any other business.
-- Abraham Lincoln Asikkala
"The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." (Albert Camus) If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) Asikkala The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) Asikkala
Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan "When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wro "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." (Mark Twain) If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry
that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
-- Dale Carnegie Asikkala Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner "Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) "I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) Asikkala
Per cubic inch, your current TV set is perhaps the dumbest appliance in your home (and I'm not
even talking about the programs).
-- Nicholas Negroponte Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways
to be, you know that there are...
-- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric Asikkala Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde "Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. Asikkala
You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer Asikkala Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Anonymous blah "Ideas are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and, following them, you reach yo Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor Asikkala
