I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like
a black mistake.
-- D. H. Lawrence Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.
- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family.
-- Navaho saying "The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) Central Finland "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes
some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny.
-- George The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard Central Finland
"The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
-- Roger Simon Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things!
-- Tom Lehrer Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor Central Finland "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above
weakness Central Finland
"Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it
is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy Central Finland "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Central Finland
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things!
-- Tom Lehrer Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous Central Finland Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen Icky icky icky icky fKANG zoop-boing n zowzyin...
-- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show Central Finland
Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous Central Finland The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or
theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
-- George Santayana A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
-- Buke Ellington It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein Central Finland
The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his
life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.
-- Francois Cavanna Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and
illiterate sport fishermen.
-- P. J. O'Rourke "I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron Central Finland If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) Central Finland
Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde 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 Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein Central Finland Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo Central Finland
"I'll endorse with my name any of the following; clothing AC-DC, cigarettes, small tapes, sound equipment, ROCK N' ROLL RECORDS, anything, film, and film equipment, Food, Helium, Whips, MONEY!!" (And If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards "Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) Central Finland blah blah blah blah blah "This is the way the world ends: not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot) _end]
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-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 Central Finland
"Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the
slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional
convi "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
history.
-- George Bernard Shaw 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 Central Finland Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.
-- Georges Danton, to his executioner "I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) Central Finland
The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
-- Libbie Fudim The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik Central Finland "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller Central Finland
An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf "Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any compliment and limit, but only o "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
-- Robert A. Humphrey Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard Central Finland Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show "People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold." (Richard Thalheimer, president, The The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
-- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 Central Finland
