Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
- James Stephens In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar 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 Airports The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something
different.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine Airports
Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first
comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac Airports "Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore
exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.
-- Slavoj Zizek Airports
"Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected..." (Chuck Jones) Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Anonymous If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
-- Erica Jong Airports He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France Airports
blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman "I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
-- Publilius Syrus Airports "Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his
cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that
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I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire Airports Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo Airports
"The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
-- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch Airports The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give. -- Cass Daley Airports
Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost "A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 Airports "The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) "I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Airports
Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take
what I have to give.
-- Cass Daley Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
-- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking
campaign Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to
realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and
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-- John Heisman Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop
questioning.
-- Albert Einstein Airports
I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup 'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. "Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) Airports Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara "I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of
mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
-- Rita Mae Brown Airports
We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your
way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition -- plowing straight ahead, come what
may I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the
marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.
-- Bette Davis "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Airports "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
- Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable
statues 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 Airports
The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato Guide to understanding a net.addict's day:
Slow day: didn't have much to do, so spent three hours on usenet.
Busy day: managed to work in three hours of usenet.
Bad day: barely squeezed in three ho Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw Airports And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning 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 Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle Airports
