Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any
antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
-- Alfred Hitchcock You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anonymous Kuortane "When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens Kuortane
The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-- Richard Bach "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Icky icky icky icky fKANG zoop-boing n zowzyin...
-- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder Kuortane In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been
widely regarded as a bad move.
-- Douglas Adams Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur Kuortane
When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find
that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our
pain Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen Kuortane "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) "To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) Kuortane
The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST 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 "Think off-center." (George Carlin) "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Kuortane The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those
little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats Kuortane
They were doing a full back shot of me in a swimsuit and I thought, Oh my God, I have to be so
brave. See, every woman hates herself from behind.
-- Cindy Crawford, supermodel Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac Kuortane "We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 Kuortane
"Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. Kuortane The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) Kuortane
"Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) "College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) Kuortane In the blithe days of honeymoon,
With Kate's allurements smitten,
I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon,
And call'd her dearest kitten.
But now my kitten's grown a cat,
And cross like other wives.
There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 "When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Kuortane
Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux "Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi "Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. "A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) Kuortane If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never
be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
-- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to Kuortane
"The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) Kuortane You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little
plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.
-- Ha Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais "I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio." (Joan Rivers) Kuortane
Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of
pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.
-- Lyster Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm Kuortane "And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to I tried a mail order bride, once, but she was damaged in the mail, and I had to return the unused part for my full refund. To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation.
-- Latin Proverb Kuortane
Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to
vote for Colonel Sanders.
-- Bob Inglis, 1995 The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute
for life.
-- Andrew Brown Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton Kuortane Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) Kuortane
