Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Lohtaja "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Lohtaja
blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Mark Twain In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson Lohtaja "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student Lohtaja
I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of
your life.
-- Abbie M. Dale Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) Lohtaja The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein Lohtaja
Guide to understanding a net.addict's day:
Slow day: didn't have much to do, so spent three hours on usenet.
Busy day: managed to work in three hours of usenet.
Bad day: barely squeezed in three ho 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 The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-- Dorothy Parker Lohtaja Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really
lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.
-- Herman Melville Lohtaja
I still live.
-- Daniel Webster, dying words Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me. -- Dick Martin Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein Lohtaja They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) "Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) Lohtaja
"The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." (Albert Camus) Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker
room is the temple where they worship arrested development.
-- Russell Baker You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is
merely a good excuse not to play football.
-- Fran Lebowitz The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. Lohtaja "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
automobile.
-- Billy Sunday "I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) Lohtaja
Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) Lohtaja Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) 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 Lohtaja
I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only
make $500,000.
-- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 "The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein Lohtaja We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and
cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
-- Tom Robbins Lohtaja
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 The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) Lohtaja For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada Lohtaja
"The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
it.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Lohtaja "Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein 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 Lohtaja
>From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some
day I intend reading it.
-- Groucho Marx The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause
we believe to be just.
-- Abraham Lincoln Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman Lohtaja Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison "In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Lohtaja
