Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde "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 Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
-- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking
campaign I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it;
whenever you're right, shut up.
-- Ogden Nash Kastellorizo We are the echo of the future.
-- W. S. Merwin The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
one.
-- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri Kastellorizo
It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
-- Leslie Jeanne Sahler It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
-- Mae West "In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of
responsibility at the other.
-- Ronald Reagan, Saturday Evening Post, 1965 A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner Kastellorizo blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde Kastellorizo
"Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
-- Colin Wilson My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
neighborhood.
-- Maya Angelou "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Kastellorizo Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as
saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball.
-- Deborah Tan "The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) "Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) Kastellorizo
I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
neighborhood.
-- Maya Angelou If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
- Robert Orben If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire Kastellorizo Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
-- Albert Einstein Kastellorizo
"People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words
that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
-- Alexander Pope Kastellorizo The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) Kastellorizo
"I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person that loves you
enough chance to love you enough.
-- Dinah Shore Kastellorizo The child is the father of the man.
-- William Wordsworth Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. Kastellorizo
"We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't
take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates...
-- Anonymous "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Kastellorizo Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. Kastellorizo
If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
-- Oscar Wilde Kastellorizo Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire Kastellorizo
"You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru 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 "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." (Mark Twain) blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain Kastellorizo 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 A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke
or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
-- Charles Brower Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Kastellorizo
The more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
-- Mark Twain Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) "You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Kastellorizo The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST Kastellorizo
We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
-- Isaac B. Singer blah "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? "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 Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you
will become a philosopher.
-- Socrates Kastellorizo Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
-- Edgar Watson Howe Kastellorizo
