And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the
advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first.
-- Benjamin Franklin "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Athens blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw Athens
"Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken Athens "We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's
arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
-- Jonathan Carroll, Outside Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams Athens
Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to
do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did.
-- Anonymous The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life
of another.
-- Helen Keller Facts are the enemy of truth.
- Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) Athens Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.
-- General Douglas MacArthur Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain
as marijuana...The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two, but can't
remember what "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Athens
Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
-- Oscar Wilde, dying words "All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the
consequences.
-- Isadora Duncan A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer Athens The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde Athens
All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him.
-- Cher Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker "Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) Athens To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
cough.
-- Pearl Williams A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer Athens
I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
- Bertrand Russell
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A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 Athens Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Athens
Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George bernard Shaw A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire 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
True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw Athens More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words "If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier Athens
A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in
accordance with the dictates of reason.
-- Oscar Wilde Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) Athens I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on
tormenting the generations to come.
-- Montesquieu After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare Athens
Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best
to become the best you are capable of becoming.
-- John R. Wooden, Practical Modern Basketball The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
-- Francis Crawford Athens "From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken I worship the quicksand he walks in.
- Art Buchwald Athens
The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III "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" You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton Athens "Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus Athens
blah "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
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-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to
be a coincidence.
-- Jeremy S. Anderson Athens A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf Athens
