If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet
enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles The child is the father of the man.
-- William Wordsworth If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis Haute-Garonne My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. "My daughter has never forgiven me. for what, I don't know, because for years, she won't speak to me. She blackens my name in the press and makes me think abortion is an excellent idea." (Klaus Kinsk "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Haute-Garonne
We must become the change we want to see.
-- Gandhi Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller My other wife is beautiful. Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter Haute-Garonne Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter Haute-Garonne
He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine; as he
who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me.
-- Thomas Jefferson "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) The child is the father of the man.
-- William Wordsworth History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow Haute-Garonne If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan Haute-Garonne
Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
-- Phillip Brooks "A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." (Fred Allen) It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way
to bet.
-- Damon Runyan All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
can't read.
-- Frank Zappa Haute-Garonne Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
freedom.
-- Albert Einstein They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
-- Antonio Porchi I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion Haute-Garonne
"Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
-- Libbie Fudim A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) Haute-Garonne Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Haute-Garonne
The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau Haute-Garonne 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 Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman Haute-Garonne
"To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by
trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by l Haute-Garonne A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke
or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
-- Charles Brower I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
-- Albert Einstein If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.
-- Anonymous Haute-Garonne
Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The
average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted
to Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should
live honourably.
-- Kant, Immanuel Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover Haute-Garonne "I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio." (Joan Rivers) Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
pure ignorance?
-- Holbrook Jackson Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison Haute-Garonne
Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill "The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell Haute-Garonne My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a
philosopher.
- Socrates "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain Haute-Garonne
"Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life
of another.
-- Helen Keller What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President Haute-Garonne If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf Haute-Garonne
"Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of
them become real as you can.
-- Frank W. Woolworth The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of
mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
-- Rita Mae Brown Haute-Garonne Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie "That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, Haute-Garonne
