"A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by
the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off!
-- Douglas Jerold, 1858 I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
-- Vince Lombardi Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud Jokioinen The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and
remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't
work and the If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) Jokioinen
I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.
-- Wayne Gretzky If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas Jokioinen Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Jokioinen
I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, "I'd like some fries." The girl at the counter said,
"Would you like some fries with that?"
-- Jay Leno Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me
is another matter.
- Sir Winston Churchill If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. Jokioinen Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen 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 blah "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Jokioinen
Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein Jokioinen "Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain "Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures--in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together." Jokioinen
"You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) 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 The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll Jokioinen Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld "I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats." (Woody Allen, in regard to the KKK) He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
-- J. Heller Jokioinen
A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and
joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not
as I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song "Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) Jokioinen "You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru "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) "... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) Jokioinen
Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.
-- R. Scott Richards Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot In the end, everything is a gag.
- Charlie Chaplin A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman Jokioinen Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) Jokioinen
"Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put
over my kitchen table.
-- Rodney Dangerfield "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) "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) Jokioinen "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
-- Igor Stravinsky Jokioinen
Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this
is not difficult.
-- Charlotte Whitton May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde Jokioinen Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me!
-- Henry Ford "There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips." (Elsa Lanchester) Jokioinen
"Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. Jokioinen The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
-- Publilius Syrus "I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen Jokioinen
"The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) "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 "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely
unnatural condition.
-- Robert Briffault Jokioinen >From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea--written in red on every
beachhead form Australia to Tokyo--There is no substitute for victory!
-- General Douglas MacArthur Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins Why doesn't she like me? Is it my hair, my overbite, the fact that I've worn the same shirt and
shorts for the last four years?
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated tele Jokioinen
