Kokkas, Vassilios - Includes information and material about the composer and his works.
Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in
charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
-- Hen Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
-- Plutarch Classical Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln Classical
The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
bureaucracy won't.
-- Hyman Rickover "God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) Classical Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when
people laugh.
-- George Bernard Shaw Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde Classical
Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off
his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night.
-- Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley O Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one.
-- Oscar Levant, to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright Correction: Instead of being arrested, as we stated, for kicking his wife down a flight of stairs and hurling a lighted kerosene lamp after her, the Rev. James P. Wellman died unmarried four years ago I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei Classical No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
- William Jennings Bryan Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra Classical
Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman "People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Classical "Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies Classical
A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if
possible, speak a few reasonable words.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Classical "The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. Classical
Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the
custom of shaving.
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
-- Woodrow Wyatt 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 "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) Classical Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) Classical
To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation.
-- Latin Proverb The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your
way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition -- plowing straight ahead, come what
may "To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi Classical "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder Classical
We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In
this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
-- Marianne Williamson You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little
plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.
-- Ha We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous Classical There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... Classical
If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the
outward behavior.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe I have a daughter who goes to SMU. She could've gone to UCLA here in California, but it's one
more letter she'd have to remember.
-- Shecky Greene Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell Classical The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
-- Lily Tomlin Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken Classical
The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
history.
-- George Bernard Shaw Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant Classical We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us.
-- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln Classical
"Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward Classical The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy Classical
