"...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
-- Erica Jong Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
-- Finley Peter Dunne Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Lagonissi Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes
your wife.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
-- Oscar Wilde Lagonissi
Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.
- Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep
up with software demands Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent
crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry
inspe Lagonissi Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley "Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) Lagonissi
To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
-- John Tudor Go away...I'm alright.
-- H. G. Wells, dying words Lagonissi I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song Never moon a werewolf.
-- Mike Binder Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein Lagonissi
MARRIAGE, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two
slaves, making in all, two.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 In view of all the deadly computer viruses that have been spreading lately, Weekend Update
would like to remind you: when you link up to another computer, you're linking up to every
computer that th I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger,
as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is
when you r "I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe Lagonissi 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 "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni Lagonissi
Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises,
promotions, and other signs of appreciation.
-- Anonymous Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
- Cicero Lagonissi The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Lagonissi
Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own
language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy
contests, but they keep the crowd's attention.
-- Anonymous I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
-- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" "God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor Lagonissi To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen Lagonissi
To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation.
-- Latin Proverb It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed.
They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position.
-- John Hogan, Commonwealth I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
-- Nathan Hale After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Lagonissi The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde Lagonissi
"Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill "Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it." (Colin Powell) The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein "One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Lagonissi 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 To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
-- Francis Crawford The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.
-- Sigmund Freud Lagonissi
Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't
take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates...
-- Anonymous Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away,
the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown Lagonissi Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins Lagonissi
Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who
take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
-- INDIRA I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi Lagonissi Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender "I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) Lagonissi
When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his ownself in his own hands. Like water. And if he
opens his fingers then- he needn't hope to find himself again.
-- Robert Bolt from A Man For All Seas Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." (Mark Twain) 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 Lagonissi There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at
heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels,
upon the lev Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton "Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Lagonissi
