It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) 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 Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy
contests, but they keep the crowd's attention.
-- Anonymous Leverkusen Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree
to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full
of grac A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
coattails.
-- Clarence Darrow Leverkusen
Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) 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 I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
-- Walt Disney Leverkusen "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) Leverkusen
We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama Leverkusen Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy Leverkusen
When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I ask
is a chance."
-- Anon. "I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all
the time. That would be hypocrisy.
-- Oscar Wilde Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon Leverkusen "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett Leverkusen
"I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) "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) The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
-- James McNeill Whistler "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Leverkusen "All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton Leverkusen
"Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) "I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos--especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom ... Rather than starting inside, I start ou In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
- Samuel Palmer "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) Leverkusen If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
- George Bernard Shaw There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. Leverkusen
Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the
custom of shaving.
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
-- Seen on a t-shirt Leverkusen "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Leverkusen
Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
-- Martin Mull "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous All you need is love.
-- The Beatles, song title Leverkusen The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
-- Francois-Auguste Rodin, when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues Leverkusen
He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're
the boss."
-- Anonymous In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung Leverkusen "Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
- H. G. Wells Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
-- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 Leverkusen
"Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
-- Al Bernstein Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous "Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) Leverkusen Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman Leverkusen
To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is
when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.
-- Marcel Achard A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are.
-- Gore Vidal Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant Leverkusen "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, 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 The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle Leverkusen
