Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
- James Stephens We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger Joutseno You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman "To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes
your wife.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Joutseno
Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature
machine gun.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) Joutseno Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same
joke and still feel lonely.
-- T. S. Eliot Joutseno
'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Joutseno Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) Joutseno
Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not
mean his maker, but himself.
-- Dean Inge When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with
the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover,
It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln "If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you t A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe Joutseno "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov Joutseno
Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something
different.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be
said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot
successfully Joutseno "Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy "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 Joutseno
Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. Joutseno The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
-- Ken Dodd "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Joutseno
"People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who
marries a man to reform him.
-- Elbert Hubbard I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler Joutseno The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins "I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Joutseno
Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. Joutseno Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet
not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
-- François de La Rouch "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) Joutseno
Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't
have done.
-- Malcolm Forbes In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill Joutseno It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler Joutseno
"Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of g Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Boies Penrose, 1931 You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry Joutseno A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a
minute, it's longer than any hour. That is relativity.
-- Albert Einstein Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
-- Pablo Picasso Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell Joutseno
Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche "If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you t Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances
continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the
distance Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
-- Ralph Marston Joutseno Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good
marriage
-- Martin Luther If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin Joutseno
