It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be
feasible.
- A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to
us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
-- Jeff Raskin Winsen an der Aller Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) Winsen an der Aller
Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
-- Samuel Johnson Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
-- Rita Rudner I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller "The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall Winsen an der Aller "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln Winsen an der Aller
Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan Correction: Instead of being arrested, as we stated, for kicking his wife down a flight of stairs and hurling a lighted kerosene lamp after her, the Rev. James P. Wellman died unmarried four years ago He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
-- J. Heller I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White 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 Winsen an der Aller The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
- unknown "I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real senten "We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe Winsen an der Aller
Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
-- Elvis Presley Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau Winsen an der Aller "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere "Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) Winsen an der Aller
Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday
afternoon.
-- Susan Ertz Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
teachers.
-- Socrates I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
-- Mother Teresa Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person that loves you
enough chance to love you enough.
-- Dinah Shore Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. Winsen an der Aller For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard
Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3 Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the
time by watching the second hand of a clock.
-- Ben Hecht Winsen an der Aller
When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment... it's
exciting to have a real crisis on your hands.
-- Margaret Thatcher, on the Falklands Conflict "To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde Winsen an der Aller As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action
of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James Guys are lucky because they get to grow mustaches. I wish I could. It's like having a little pet for
your face.
-- Anita Wise Winsen an der Aller
Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating
influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the
commun There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and
discipline.
-- Michel de Montaigne "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) "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau Winsen an der Aller The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
- William Jennings Bryan Winsen an der Aller
The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the
opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
-- Oscar W "We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel Winsen an der Aller "We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Winsen an der Aller
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
-- Robert Benchley You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger Winsen an der Aller Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying 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 Winsen an der Aller
In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is
simply one of those things which happen from time to time.
-- Edward P. Tryon blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to
learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
-- Michel de Montaigne Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea.
-- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature
intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times
worse tha Winsen an der Aller History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte "In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if
he finds her.
-- Benjamin Tillett Winsen an der Aller
All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways
to be, you know that there are...
-- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric Winsen an der Aller "A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it." (Claude Rains, as Mr. Dryden, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
-- James Stephens Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato Winsen an der Aller
