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"Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie "I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) Spetses "Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your
thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be.
-- Richard Mitchell, from Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson Spetses
Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
time Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the
second, "For my best friend."
-- Anonymous I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
- Bill Hirst Spetses It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal "God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins Spetses
Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not,
the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms
with There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no
religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear
of It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh Spetses The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer 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 "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) Spetses
It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal "Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, "I'd like some fries." The girl at the counter said,
"Would you like some fries with that?"
-- Jay Leno Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong
and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny
is but th There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be
paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's
life Spetses "The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your
thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be.
-- Richard Mitchell, from "The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." (George Bernar Spetses
"The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
-- Sigmund Freud If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince Spetses Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you
will become a philosopher.
-- Socrates Spetses
I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family.
-- Navaho saying Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. Spetses Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
freedom.
-- Albert Einstein "One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price. I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I 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. Spetses
Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) Spetses Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau "I'll endorse with my name any of the following; clothing AC-DC, cigarettes, small tapes, sound equipment, ROCK N' ROLL RECORDS, anything, film, and film equipment, Food, Helium, Whips, MONEY!!" (And You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
cough.
-- Pearl Williams Spetses
Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
existence.
-- Sydney Smith A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to
run his, either.
-- Anonymous Spetses Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous "Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart "You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die Spetses
If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-- Groucho Marx To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to
finish without knowing what you have written.
-- Jean Jacques Rousseau Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-
inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least
expect i Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. Spetses Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein Spetses
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer 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 Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point "Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." (Gertrude Stein) Spetses Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not
mean his maker, but himself.
-- Dean Inge He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Spetses
"No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) "A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things.
-- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
ethical infants.
-- General Omar Bradley Spetses "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) Spetses
