"I'll endorse with my name any of the following; clothing AC-DC, cigarettes, small tapes, sound equipment, ROCK N' ROLL RECORDS, anything, film, and film equipment, Food, Helium, Whips, MONEY!!" (And Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford Thuringia The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute
for life.
-- Andrew Brown Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm Thuringia
They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
-- Antonio Porchi If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
history.
-- George Bernard Shaw "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin Thuringia "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!
-- Calvin Thuringia
In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops
were side by side in the Italian village of Cremona. First were the Amatis, and outside their shop
hung There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
time Here's to you and here's to me,
and I hope we never disagree.
But, if that should ever be,
to HELL with you, here's to ME!
-- Anonymous "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine Thuringia For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) Thuringia
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
Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of
suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room.
-- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge Thuringia 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 "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard Thuringia
If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) "I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) "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) As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde Thuringia Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous Thuringia
Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
-- Roger Babson Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman 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 Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 Thuringia "The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not
impress the neighbors as being very much.
-- Zora Neale Hurston Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future
generations Thuringia
Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the
source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity,
ign Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have
had any experience with them.
-- H. L. Mencken Thuringia All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin "I put on an act sometimes, and people think I'm insensitive. Really, it's like a kind of armor because I'm too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I' Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle Thuringia
The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes "Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
a fortune The telephone company is urging people to *please* not use the telephone unless it is absolutely
necessary in order to keep the lines open for emergency personnel. We'll be right back after this
bre Thuringia Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon Thuringia
Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein "If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his
life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.
-- Francois Cavanna Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique
added to the armamentarium of political inquiry. Anyone who cannot negotiate Chi squares,
assess randomi Thuringia Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of
humor is just common sense, dancing.
-- Clive James Thuringia
If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov "Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement
speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have
th I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it.
And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.
-- George Bus Thuringia However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts,
in living color, you're about to see another first -- an attempted suicide.
-- Chris Hubbock, who sh "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) Thuringia
When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
- George Washington Carver In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops
were side by side in the Italian village of Cremona. First were the Amatis, and outside their shop
hung It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
-- Vince Lombardi Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary
to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.'
-- Bierce, A "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) Thuringia A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words
that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
-- Alexander Pope A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous Thuringia
