The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi "I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb Halki 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" It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman "The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) Halki
Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this
is not difficult.
-- Charlotte Whitton The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) Halki Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi "I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio." (Joan Rivers) Halki
"Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
-- Albert Einstein The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous 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 Halki "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) A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Halki
Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
-- Hoshang N. Akhtar "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-
inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least
expect i When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't
have done.
-- Malcolm Forbes "Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) Halki "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. Halki
Establishing yourself, furnishing a house, building up a comfortable existence, and having that menace hanging over your head all the time - no, I prefer to live in hotels, cafés, just passing through When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Halki The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline
luggage.
-- Mark Russell Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) Halki
Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
-- Anonymous "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
- William Jennings Bryan We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx Halki Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Halki
We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
-- Elbert Hubbard A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer Halki blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
-- Jules Renard I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call
me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
-- Rebecca West, Halki
Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
-- B.F. Skinner Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing
matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.
-- Amy Bloom Halki A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Guitry Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. Halki
The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
-- Virginia Woolf Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-- Stephen Covey Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show Halki The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower."
"Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!"
-- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" 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 Halki
There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin "There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) Halki "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa Halki
Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without
feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex,
the ugl There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and
inex "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Halki "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) "We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... Halki
