A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it,
Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me
de If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. Kalkar He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me. -- Dick Martin Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon Kalkar
blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness
are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser
tha The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca Kalkar Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.
-- King George V Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Kalkar
"Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra) Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi Kalkar No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) Kalkar
It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crow You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's
arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
-- Jonathan Carroll, Outside The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
-- Colin Wilson Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat Kalkar The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.
-- Mark Twain A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) Kalkar
Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig
deep into the actual and get something out of that - this doubtless is the right way to live.
-- H A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl could want in her life, except for good
taste in men!
-- Wedding Toast We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr Kalkar Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset 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 Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins Kalkar
Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer "Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't
natural.
-- Bob Beckel, on term limits, CBS This Morning, 3/30/95 Kalkar Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos Kalkar
People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for
half the money.
-- Arthur Godfrey A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz Kalkar Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 Kalkar
"Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you
can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist.
-- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern I worship the quicksand he walks in.
- Art Buchwald Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
-- Vladimir Nabokov Kalkar "Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
-- Jules Renard "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Kalkar
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 The west wasn't won on salad.
-- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I
was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper.
-- Smith & Jones Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
-- Alphonse Allais The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard Kalkar The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton 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 I didn't accept it. I received it.
-- Richard Allen, National Security Advisor to President Reagan, explaining the $1000 in cash and
two watches he was given by two Japanese journalists after he hel Kalkar
I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx "The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
-- Mae West Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Kalkar Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you
have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.
-- Aldous Huxley If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing Kalkar
Establishing yourself, furnishing a house, building up a comfortable existence, and having that menace hanging over your head all the time - no, I prefer to live in hotels, cafés, just passing through "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) When Baby's cries grew hard to bear I popped him in the Frigidaire. I never would have done so if
I'd known that he'd be frozen stiff. My wife said, "George, I'm so unhappy! Our darling's now
comple "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the
false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
-- Salvador Dali Kalkar "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) "We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Kalkar
