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"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) 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 And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde Apokoronas Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein Apokoronas
Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically,
ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion.
-- Fred Rogers, parody of "Row, row, row your boa "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words
that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
-- Alexander Pope Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol Apokoronas Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
-- Mother Teresa "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) Apokoronas
"There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes "In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." (Eric Hoffer) There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
-- Neils Bohr Apokoronas Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 Apokoronas
Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with
the powerful, not to be neutral.
-- Paulo Freire Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already
were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Apokoronas We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw Apokoronas
Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically,
ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion.
-- Fred Rogers, parody of "Row, row, row your boa "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) Vote early and vote often.
- Al Capone "Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Apokoronas When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb Apokoronas
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? Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would
be doing if he were alive today?
1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War.
2) Advising the President.
3) D The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu "Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Apokoronas If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
-- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel Apokoronas
Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
-- Igor Stravinsky If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire "I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos--especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom ... Rather than starting inside, I start ou The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to
contact us.
-- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes He who laughs, lasts.
-- Mary Pettibone Poole Apokoronas I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back.
-- Henny Youngman Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee.
-- Anonymous Apokoronas
Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken "The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not
impress the neighbors as being very much.
-- Zora Neale Hurston When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I ask
is a chance."
-- Anon. "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) Apokoronas In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a
few grains of corn now and then."
-- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford Apokoronas
Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
-- Erica Jong There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another
to the world.
-- Antonio Machado If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
-- George Saunders - last words Apokoronas It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a
few grains of corn now and then."
-- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker Apokoronas
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 This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper "The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous Apokoronas Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door
and just visit now and then.
-- Katharine Hepburn We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as
possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time Apokoronas
"If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your
girdle when your hips stick.
-- Ogden Nash A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live "See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and Apokoronas We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. Apokoronas
