Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell "The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince Kalymnos Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker Kalymnos
"A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) 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 Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-- Carl Gustav Jung All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) Kalymnos Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) Kalymnos
Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
-- Vladimir Nabokov Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a
holding pattern over Philadelphia.
-- Judith Viorst "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e Kalymnos Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen Kalymnos
"Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
-- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Kalymnos Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin Kalymnos
Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-- Ambrose Bierce Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg "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) "It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Kalymnos "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun Kalymnos
You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY "Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings This compact disc is made from analog masters recorded without noise reduction. Half the tracks,
in fact, were recorded in a dismal, cheap basement eight-track studio with puddles of water on
the fl You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills Kalymnos One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
reputation.
-- Oscar Wilde We can say 'Peace on Earth,' we can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have
not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us, then it will not be.
-- Betty Shabazz blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( Kalymnos
It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves
great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates
the "When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. Kalymnos The man with the best job in the country is the Vice President. All he has to do is get up every
morning and say, "How's the President?"
-- Will Rogers A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The
rest is trust.
-- Nanette Newman, British actress The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth
shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.
-- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, Kalymnos
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 "Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Frank and explicit; that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others." (Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil) Kalymnos Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers Kalymnos
This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) Kalymnos The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-- Anonymous "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) Kalymnos
"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) For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman 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 There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law Kalymnos If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal "... adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, quoted in his obituary, Time) Kalymnos
May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller "In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. 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. Kalymnos The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short "Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes Kalymnos
