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"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) Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel Kouvola The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. Kouvola
Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely
unnatural condition.
-- Robert Briffault Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
-- H. L. Mencken blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) "Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) Kouvola Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical
deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
-- Albert Einstein Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
pure ignorance?
-- Holbrook Jackson Kouvola
When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf "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." Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
ethical infants.
-- General Omar Bradley Kouvola Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Kouvola
"I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt Kouvola Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger,
as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is
when you r I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
neighborhood.
-- Maya Angelou Kouvola
When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
- George Washington Carver Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan 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 Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West Kouvola Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of
poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.
-- John Cage Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Kouvola
"Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra) The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. "The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does
not stop until you get into the office.
-- Robert Frost Kouvola Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
-- Helen Keller Kouvola
Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is
when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.
-- Marcel Achard Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne Kouvola There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never
were, and ask why not?
-- Robert Francis Kennedy Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to
benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.
-- Ralph Mars Anything too stupid to be said, is sung.
-- Voltaire Kouvola
Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can
only read the title.
-- Virginia Woolf Kouvola "The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol Kouvola
To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) 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 Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call
me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
-- Rebecca West, Kouvola If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all
over it and put your name at the top.
-- English Professor, Ohio University After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare Kouvola
Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
-- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act i. Sc. 1. "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 As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis Kouvola Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
-- Robert Benchley Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken Kouvola
These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.
-- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995 "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock Kouvola Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Kouvola
