I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for
half the money.
-- Arthur Godfrey "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills Kythnos When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He
experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of
optic Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large
organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.
-- Dave Barry Kythnos
One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland Kythnos The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model.
Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush...
-- Dawn French An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr Kythnos
Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health,
knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
-- Roger Babson 'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is
when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.
-- Marcel Achard Kythnos 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 Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton Beginning in February 1976 your assistance benefits will be discontinued ... Reason: it has been
reported to our office that you expired on January 1, 1976.
-- excerpt from a letter, Illinois Depart Kythnos
"Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
-- Red Buttons "I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) Kythnos Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) Kythnos
Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to
benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.
-- Ralph Mars Not to anticipate is already to moan.
-- Leonardo da Vinci It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith "A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) Kythnos God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at
the same time.
- Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston Kythnos
Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese "Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) Good friends are good for your health.
-- Irwin Sarason I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again.
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker Kythnos The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) "It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) Kythnos
"I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop
questioning.
-- Albert Einstein Saying that Windows95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and
believing you've witnessed the second coming.
-- Guy Kawasaki "Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation." (Larry Flynt) Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you
together, but do so with all your heart.
-- Marcus Aurelius Kythnos The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the
first half.
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) Kythnos
Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood 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 Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem Kythnos You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was
60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is.
-- Ellen DeGeneres The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
-- George Bernard Shaw Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James Kythnos
"Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing.
Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
-- Oscar Wilde "In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin Kythnos 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 I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including:
* Both of your socks should always be the same color
* Or they should at least both be fairly dark
-- Dave Barry We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France Kythnos
The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
-- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! We are the echo of the future.
-- W. S. Merwin Man is a natural polygamist. He always has one woman leading him by the nose and another
hanging on to his coattails.
-- H. L. Mencken He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill Kythnos "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived
in this century. I didn't live in this century.
-- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic Kythnos
A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
-- George Jean Nathan Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers Kythnos Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does
come, we no longer exist.
-- Epicurus Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness
are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser
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