The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) Icky icky icky icky fKANG zoop-boing n zowzyin...
-- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
-- Douglas Adams Ramstein-Miesenbach The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw 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 There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
-- Oscar Wilde Ramstein-Miesenbach
"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 Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Ramstein-Miesenbach The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) Ramstein-Miesenbach
A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-- Carl Gustav Jung Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen 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 Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware;
those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software.
-- Unknown author, Levitating T Ramstein-Miesenbach "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) He who laughs, lasts.
-- Mary Pettibone Poole Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
- Karl Wallenda Ramstein-Miesenbach
"In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
wastes to Third Wo Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) Ramstein-Miesenbach My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me!
-- Henry Ford A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." Ramstein-Miesenbach
If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
-- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.
-- Barbara Bush, first lady, 1989 Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle "Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored..." (Herman Melville, The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley Ramstein-Miesenbach "Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Ramstein-Miesenbach
The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not,
the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms
with In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
-- Elvis Presley Ramstein-Miesenbach A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
-- Joseph Addison "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) Ramstein-Miesenbach
"Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West blah "You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Study men, not historians.
-- Harry Truman Ramstein-Miesenbach We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw The soul is healed by being with children.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevski Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ Ramstein-Miesenbach
Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain "The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only th blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) Ramstein-Miesenbach "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those
little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet Ramstein-Miesenbach
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Mark Twain It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein Ramstein-Miesenbach The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton "Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) "Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Ramstein-Miesenbach
A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
-- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
-- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation.
-- Latin Proverb Ramstein-Miesenbach I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Man and wife make one fool. Ramstein-Miesenbach
Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
-- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" "Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. Ramstein-Miesenbach I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm "Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) Ramstein-Miesenbach
