May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler Juupajoki God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln Juupajoki
Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of
genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.
-- General Douglas MacArthur First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi Juupajoki If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
-- Johnny Carson I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Juupajoki
In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton What's new? Most of my wife. "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) 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 Juupajoki "One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price. I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Juupajoki
Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to
get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
-- Billie Holliday Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar 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 Juupajoki Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra "Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen Juupajoki
Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
-- Pablo Picasso Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine Juupajoki "If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries "To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Juupajoki
"It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) 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 Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith Juupajoki The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp "For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST Juupajoki
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. I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
wastes to Third Wo People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) Juupajoki Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie >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 Juupajoki
It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
-- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane "A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) Juupajoki "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
-- M. Hirschfield Juupajoki
Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell 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 When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Juupajoki "To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) Juupajoki
"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) Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
cough.
-- Pearl Williams Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain Juupajoki "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. "The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) Juupajoki
Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
-- Pablo Picasso Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn
themselves to a life of vinegar.
-- Countess of Blessington Man is a natural polygamist. He always has one woman leading him by the nose and another
hanging on to his coattails.
-- H. L. Mencken "Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. Juupajoki The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison "Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day." (Ali bin Juupajoki
