Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl Hartola We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-- Dorothy Parker For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely
unnatural condition.
-- Robert Briffault Hartola
If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis When you're away, I'm restless, lonely
Wretched, bored, dejected; only
here's the rub, my darling dear,
I feel the same when you are here.
-- Samuel Hoffenstein Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
-- Sigmund Freud Hartola "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Hartola
"Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot Hartola It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the
consequences.
-- Isadora Duncan Hartola
Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it,
Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me
de This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one
of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb Hartola The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun No other success can compensate for failure in the home.
-- David O. McKay, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Advice to parents at General Conference of he
LDS Church, April, 1964 Hartola
The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their
powers as a State depend.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in
opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
-- Sydney Smith Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx Hartola "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
-- Oliver Herford Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
-- Roger Babson Hartola
It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find
that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our
pain If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment.
-- Voltaire Hartola There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Hartola
'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde "I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling Hartola "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) "Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) "Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) Hartola
Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing.
-- George Benard Shaw "A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) Hartola More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. Hartola
Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is
that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one.
-- Anonymous With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly good I thee endow.
-- Wedding Vow, Book of Common Prayer Hartola To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon Hartola
I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard Spinster: A bachelor's wife. Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-- Dorothy Parker Hartola When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
-- Buckminster Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) Hartola
Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl could want in her life, except for good
taste in men!
-- Wedding Toast There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer "In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger Hartola I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco "Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra) "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) Hartola
