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I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder "In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) >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 Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) Kotka Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides Kotka
Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. "I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower."
"Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!"
-- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous Kotka Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
-- H. L. Mencken Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh Kotka
"The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them
down people's throats.
-- Howard Aiken "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 Kotka For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely
unnatural condition.
-- Robert Briffault "Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.
-- American Proverb Kotka
Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Kotka The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
a leg.
-- Abraham Lincoln Kotka
A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Guitry It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
-- Vince Lombardi Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. "... 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) Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson Kotka "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Kotka
Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde Kotka "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe Every flower must grow through dirt.
-- Anonymous Kotka
The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
-- Bhagava Gita Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward "Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good
marriage
-- Martin Luther All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde Kotka I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) Kotka
Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche "I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) Kotka The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
-- Albert Einstein You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
-- Stanislaw J. Lem If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet
enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p Kotka
For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton "Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation." (Larry Flynt) I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous Kotka When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall
looking frantic.
-- Steven Wright There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has
come.
-- Victor Hugo I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 Kotka
Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
- Sir Winston Churchill Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no
religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear
of Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens Kotka I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine Kotka
I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By
giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you
will In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is
simply one of those things which happen from time to time.
-- Edward P. Tryon Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol "Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) Kotka The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this
is true.
-- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock Kotka
