The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is
that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one.
-- Anonymous Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken Milos "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils 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 Milos
"Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha 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 Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
-- Hermione Gingold "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Milos Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to
us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
-- Jeff Raskin Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Milos
Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of
humor is just common sense, dancing.
-- Clive James Milos We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra Milos
Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken I worship the quicksand he walks in.
- Art Buchwald It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
-- Mae West The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
it.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Milos "Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) "Think off-center." (George Carlin) "It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books--what other men do not say in whole books." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols) Milos
Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
-- James Stephens A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and
illiterate sport fishermen.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer Milos It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing. 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 "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) Milos
"Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) Milos Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor "I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) Milos
Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell "When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wro "I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet
enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five
isn't bad.
-- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 Milos I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
-- Helen Rowland Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you
underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell Milos
"Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) The child is the father of the man.
-- William Wordsworth At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in
every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt Milos Silence is argument carried out by other means.
- ErnestoCheGuevara You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.
-- American Proverb Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique
added to the armamentarium of political inquiry. Anyone who cannot negotiate Chi squares,
assess randomi Milos
"If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
-- Shane Leslie "If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous 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 Milos "I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other
is ready.
-- Henry David Thoreau The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. Milos
When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
-- Clarence Darrow Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the
time by watching the second hand of a clock.
-- Ben Hecht Milos "Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature
machine gun.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell Milos
If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger Milos 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 Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window.
You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house.
-- Jean Ke Milos
