"I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There
are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's
reall There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran Argolis If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
-- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf I don't feel good.
-- Luther Burbank, dying words Argolis
"All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) Argolis "I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real senten You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-- Richard Bach "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) Argolis
The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One
cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the
marvelous str A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein Argolis "I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats." (Woody Allen, in regard to the KKK) "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Argolis
Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of
poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.
-- John Cage blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman Argolis Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig
deep into the actual and get something out of that - this doubtless is the right way to live.
-- H A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family.
-- Navaho saying Argolis
Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet
not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
-- François de La Rouch "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five
isn't bad.
-- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) Argolis When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want,
and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.
-- Fred Astaire The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
-- Robert M. Pirsig "I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower."
"Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!"
-- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" Argolis
I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben Argolis "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) If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-- Abraham Lincoln My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. Argolis
"Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically!
-- Steven Wright ... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more
aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since
"Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
-- Buck Henry Argolis I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me
is another matter.
- Sir Winston Churchill "I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having
passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it.
-- Anonymous Argolis
Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln Argolis The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman Argolis
I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family.
-- Navaho saying The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein "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' Argolis 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 "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville Argolis
Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa Argolis A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The
rest is trust.
-- Nanette Newman, British actress They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to
get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
-- Billie Holliday "The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Argolis
Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with
the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
-- Cynthia Heimel My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh Argolis Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken "I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free." (Walker Percy, The Moviegoer) May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm
upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in
the palm Argolis
