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Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would not live forever, because
we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live
forever, The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore
exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.
-- Slavoj Zizek Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats Imatra May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm
upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in
the palm "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words Imatra
"Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) ...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been
all along.
-- Madeleine L'Engle "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') ...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words Imatra The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you
together, but do so with all your heart.
-- Marcus Aurelius We have only one person to blame, and that's each other.
-- Barry Beck, New York Ranger, on who started a fight furing a hockey game Imatra
The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods "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) Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker 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 Imatra "Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein Imatra
"There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered." (Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom) Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
-- Alphonse Allais The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson "... adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, quoted in his obituary, Time) May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. Imatra "From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Imatra
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous "This is the first age that's paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one." (Arthur C. Clarke) No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln Imatra When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
-- Charles Pierce Imatra
"Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without
feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex,
the ugl I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle
enough of them.
-- Flannery O'Connor Imatra "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato Imatra
Spinster: A bachelor's wife. Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. Imatra "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) "Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) Imatra
In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood 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 If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Imatra Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the
writing will be just as it should be.
-- Mark Twain There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your
way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition -- plowing straight ahead, come what
may Imatra
"To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are
difficult.
-- Lucius Anneaus Seneca "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) Imatra Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
-- Anonymous Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
-- Robert Browning Imatra
"What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-- Abraham Lincoln "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Imatra A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
-- Clarence Darrow Imatra
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 Nietzsche "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
-- Roger Babson Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the
top.
-- Ed Abbey Imatra It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way
to bet.
-- Damon Runyan To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it;
whenever you're right, shut up.
-- Ogden Nash I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton Imatra
