"Those who feel certainty are stupid and those with any imagination or understanding are filled with doubt and indecision." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) 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 "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) "'Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!'" (Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass) It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln Rebetiko "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw Rebetiko
There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!
-- Calvin We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're
the boss."
-- Anonymous Rebetiko For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen Rebetiko
Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy
the waking hours much more.
-- Woody Allen "A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." (Fred Allen) "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) Rebetiko "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't
have done.
-- Malcolm Forbes Rebetiko
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
Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
-- Finley Peter Dunne The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" Rebetiko Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first
comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last Rebetiko
Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Tear open packet, unfold and use.
-- Directions on moist towelette package Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln Rebetiko "Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) "It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Rebetiko
I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
-- Herbert Westren Turnbull Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings There is more to life than increasing its speed.
-- Gandhi Rebetiko "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-- Dorothy Parker Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
-- Kenneth H. Blanchard Rebetiko
"Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Sřren Kierkegaard A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to
vote for Colonel Sanders.
-- Bob Inglis, 1995 Rebetiko It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) Rebetiko
"The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) Rebetiko Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to
vote for Colonel Sanders.
-- Bob Inglis, 1995 The nourishment is palatable.
-- Millard Fillmore, dying words When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Rebetiko
We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution,
of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always
be Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is
always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.
-- Friedrich Nietzsch Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus Rebetiko You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon Rebetiko
I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken "I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln Rebetiko To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death Rebetiko
Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for
half the money.
-- Arthur Godfrey Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli 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 Rebetiko I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was
doing spying.
-- Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets for spying, in an i Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Rebetiko
