Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw "I offer images; I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached ... But, we can only open the doors. We can't drag people through. I can't free them unless they want to be free--more than any The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) Karjalohja 'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
-- Jerry Garcia A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost Karjalohja
An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie "There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
-- Roger Babson "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Karjalohja If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill Silence is argument carried out by other means.
- ErnestoCheGuevara The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson Karjalohja
One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do
what he was afraid he couldn't do.
-- Henry Ford I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want,
and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.
-- Fred Astaire I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Karjalohja Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately
becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in
those tiny toil People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa Karjalohja
Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action
of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. Karjalohja Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines
staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you
ask th Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz Karjalohja
Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire Karjalohja If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts,
in living color, you're about to see another first -- an attempted suicide.
-- Chris Hubbock, who sh Karjalohja
Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson Karjalohja Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they
oppose it.
-- Sigmund Freud Karjalohja
It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a
few grains of corn now and then."
-- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off
his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night.
-- Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley O What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine "Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) Karjalohja We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) I still live.
-- Daniel Webster, dying words Karjalohja
A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give. -- Cass Daley A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
-- Buck Henry Karjalohja Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen "To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Karjalohja
Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
existence.
-- Sydney Smith For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good
results: drag behind car through puddles, blow-dry on roofrack.
-- Laundry instructions on a shirt I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop Karjalohja The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Karjalohja
"I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio." (Joan Rivers) Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz "I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and
hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in
Heaven.
-- P. J I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.
-- David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes. Karjalohja "Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison Karjalohja
Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
-- Sioux Indian Prayer Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the
time by watching the second hand of a clock.
-- Ben Hecht Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman Karjalohja The child is the father of the man.
-- William Wordsworth There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 Karjalohja
