I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Oberhausen Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) the social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for
all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation.
-- Peter Oberhausen
The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing.
Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
-- Oscar Wilde Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides Golf is a good walk spoiled.
-- Mark Twain Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach 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 Oberhausen Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
what you are getting.
-- Anonymous If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be
closed for any other business.
-- Abraham Lincoln In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law Oberhausen
Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers Oberhausen 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 When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb >From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud Oberhausen
Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker "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) "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) Oberhausen They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
-- Anonymous "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He
experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of
optic Oberhausen
blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
-- Mae West "Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." (Dave Barry) If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken Oberhausen Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber "My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go." (Oscar Wilde, his last recorded words) Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder Oberhausen
Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Oberhausen Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde Oberhausen
I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never
be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
-- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of
genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would
be doing if he were alive today?
1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War.
2) Advising the President.
3) D There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
one.
-- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri Oberhausen We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
-- Nathan Hale Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing
matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.
-- Amy Bloom Oberhausen
Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson "What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux." (Thomas Pynchon) "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. 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 Oberhausen It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha Oberhausen
I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What
do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came
back with ano There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton Oberhausen If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-- Abraham Lincoln "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) Oberhausen
"The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
ages as much as 20 years.
-- Anonymous Oberhausen blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
-- Robert A. Humphrey Oberhausen
Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take
what I have to give.
-- Cass Daley Just buy a box of popcorn and a Coca-Cola and sit back and watch.
-- James Carville, Clinton advisor, offering advice for Democrats on the term-limits vote in the
House Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution,
of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always
be Oberhausen You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters "Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) Oberhausen
