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The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
-- Antonio Porchi Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen Astypalaia When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being
brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
-- Cynthia H The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Astypalaia
Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) Astypalaia The soul is healed by being with children.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevski Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) Astypalaia
Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa blah blah blah blah blah "This is the way the world ends: not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot) _end]
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"Hello Kitty is an icon that doesn't stand for a The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed Astypalaia An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
-- Robert A. Humphrey We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we
respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
-- H. L. Mencken There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!
-- Calvin Astypalaia
Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc
jockey is not allowed to talk.
-- Fran Lebowitz I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle
enough of them.
-- Flannery O'Connor Astypalaia "People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult." (Anne Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of
fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality
and Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Astypalaia
The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
-- Jerry Garcia "I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Astypalaia Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. "Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of g "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) Astypalaia
I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to
know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.
- Clarence Darrow, Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One
cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the
marvelous str Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you
a hundre Astypalaia If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find
out how to do it.
-- Theodore Roosevelt Go away...I'm alright.
-- H. G. Wells, dying words Astypalaia
"Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
-- Oscar Wilde Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney Astypalaia I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton Astypalaia
Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. "The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown 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 Astypalaia In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent...
-- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported
in a contemporary "American Scholar" Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Astypalaia
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 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 "Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
-- Douglas Adams A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted
by a little physical antipathy.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Astypalaia When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-- Gilda Radner "The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." (Albert Camus) Astypalaia
All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard Astypalaia The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) Astypalaia
You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be
sacrificed to expediency.
-- W. Somerset Maugham I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson
articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are
apparently based If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg Astypalaia If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. "A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) Astypalaia
