Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
-- Samuel Butler "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
-- James McNeill Whistler Calvados Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away,
the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Calvados
"Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) Calvados It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Calvados
Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best
to become the best you are capable of becoming.
-- John R. Wooden, Practical Modern Basketball Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert Calvados Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby
see only a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney and continue on their way.
-- Vincent Van Gogh God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire Calvados
Man and wife make one fool. Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the
writing will be just as it should be.
-- Mark Twain I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they
study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.
-- Gerald Early, writer, baseball do Calvados "It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." (Mark Twain) Calvados
The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
-- Albert Einstein More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence Calvados 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 "There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) "Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Calvados
There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers "Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol [You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley Calvados "Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor Calvados
I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
-- Oscar Wilde "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
-- Oscar Wilde Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs Calvados Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) "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 Calvados
I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put
over my kitchen table.
-- Rodney Dangerfield Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot Calvados Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso Calvados
To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi "In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." (Eric Hoffer) Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning Calvados "The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing. Calvados
I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France 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 "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 "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 Calvados 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 It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
-- Henry James "There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) Calvados
If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
-- St. Francis of Assisi I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy Calvados If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers Calvados
