To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
-- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning
there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have
people all You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous Zwickau "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) "Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) Zwickau
To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the
top.
-- Ed Abbey I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to
passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are . . .
grand Zwickau Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken Not to anticipate is already to moan.
-- Leonardo da Vinci You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. Zwickau
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) "No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." (Henry B. Adams) The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
newspapers.
-- Thomas Jefferson Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells Zwickau Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. Zwickau
When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find
that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our
pain When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. "Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) Zwickau Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the
next meal would come from.
-- Peter F. Drucker Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
-- Robert Browning Zwickau
Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb "It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it,
there will be a fish.
-- Ovid "I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) Zwickau "I've never let my school interfere with my education." (Mark Twain) I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) Zwickau
Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
-- Chekhov "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) Zwickau My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed Zwickau
The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois Zwickau My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. "Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) >From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea--written in red on every
beachhead form Australia to Tokyo--There is no substitute for victory!
-- General Douglas MacArthur Zwickau
Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a
natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend "I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) Zwickau Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer Zwickau
People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken Zwickau It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Never moon a werewolf.
-- Mike Binder Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Zwickau
"A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had
never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
-- Orison Swett Marden Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
-- Phillip Brooks A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
-- Christopher Morley Zwickau Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
-- B.F. Skinner "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous Zwickau
Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous If you never want to see a man again, say, "I love you, I want to marry you, I want to have children..." - they leave skid marks. -- Rita Rudner "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry Zwickau Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each
other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's
nerves Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly Zwickau
