The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
ethical infants.
-- General Omar Bradley It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is
the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be
cr We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
-- Scott Adams I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh Grub am Forst Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin Grub am Forst
Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty Grub am Forst "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha Grub am Forst
"We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli blah "Ideas are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and, following them, you reach yo However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy
together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back
on at Grub am Forst Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine Grub am Forst
Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to
help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to
comfort us along No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf Grub am Forst Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
-- Carl Zwanzig One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon Grub am Forst
He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them
down people's throats.
-- Howard Aiken Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
-- Albert Einstein What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz Grub am Forst When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
-- Lily Tomlin Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain Grub am Forst
Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-- Stephen Covey We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos Grub am Forst Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller Grub am Forst
You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra "I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as
possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things.
-- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" Grub am Forst Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
-- Rita Rudner Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
definition, is unassailable.
-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning
there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have
people all Grub am Forst
"I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that
no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
-- Paul Dirac Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson Grub am Forst "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene Grub am Forst
There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
-- Woody Allen A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous Grub am Forst It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Grub am Forst
"Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the
unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is
also the m Grub am Forst I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. we are for the most part
more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.
-- Thoreau What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
-- Woody Allen You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room
enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.
-- Fred Allen Grub am Forst
Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
teachers.
-- Socrates Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and
hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in
Heaven.
-- P. J Grub am Forst Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off
his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night.
-- Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley O There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never
were, and ask why not?
-- Robert Francis Kennedy Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham Grub am Forst
