Weingut Karl Heidrich - Vinery with information on their wines, the town and their holiday flat.
Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba Bacharach You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual Women's liberationists spread the word that...the only peaceful family is one in which either the
wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous.
-- R. Emmett Tyell, The Liberal Crack-Up, 1984 Bacharach
It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin "A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) "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) Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James Bacharach Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would not live forever, because
we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live
forever, Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock "The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz Bacharach
Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
-- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. How could they tell?
-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) Bacharach And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) Bacharach
The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the
faculty of laughter.
-- Joseph Addison "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi We can say 'Peace on Earth,' we can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have
not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us, then it will not be.
-- Betty Shabazz Bacharach You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni Bacharach
Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra "God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) All television is children's television.
-- Richard P. Adler 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 Bacharach I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.
-- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
- unknown All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe Bacharach
"Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II "We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Bacharach For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good
results: drag behind car through puddles, blow-dry on roofrack.
-- Laundry instructions on a shirt In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves
beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
-- Al Rogers, Global SchoolHouse Netw Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you
get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a
Bacharach
"Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) blah "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) "Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day." (Ali bin He who laughs, lasts.
-- Mary Pettibone Poole Bacharach If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Man is a natural polygamist. He always has one woman leading him by the nose and another
hanging on to his coattails.
-- H. L. Mencken Bacharach
"Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman "Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf Bacharach Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop
questioning.
-- Albert Einstein We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein Bacharach
"We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
history.
-- George Bernard Shaw NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows
how to make us disobedient.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac "Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Bacharach The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's
being off the network.
-- Guy Almes Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin Bacharach
To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot "Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) Bacharach 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 We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
-- Buck Henry Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
-- Roger Babson Bacharach
You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) 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 "Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi Bacharach Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
--Loesje "People drag their progeny around with them like a ball and chain, like some terrible deadweight that hinders their every move - and that, as often as not, effectively winds up killing them." (Michel Bacharach
