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 I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
-- Mother Teresa I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous No other success can compensate for failure in the home.
-- David O. McKay, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Advice to parents at General Conference of he
LDS Church, April, 1964 Leros Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger,
as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is
when you r Why doesn't she like me? Is it my hair, my overbite, the fact that I've worn the same shirt and
shorts for the last four years?
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated tele 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 Leros
The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain
terrible.
-- Jean Kerr "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
-- G. K. Chesterton Leros cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
gone beyond that.
-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly good I thee endow.
-- Wedding Vow, Book of Common Prayer Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller Leros
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 The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
-- Erma Bombeck Leros Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something
different.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine Leros
We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
-- Buck Henry "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous Leros Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
-- Rory Bremner If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't
natural.
-- Bob Beckel, on term limits, CBS This Morning, 3/30/95 Leros
Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea.
-- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig Leros It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way
to bet.
-- Damon Runyan 'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings Why doesn't she like me? Is it my hair, my overbite, the fact that I've worn the same shirt and
shorts for the last four years?
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated tele Leros
The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
-- Niels Bohr Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde "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 A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is
something everybody believes, except the person who made it.
-- Albert Einstein, attributed Leros There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince Leros
God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if
he finds her.
-- Benjamin Tillett Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi Leros "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no
religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear
of Leros
If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince I'll sleep when I'm dead.
- Warren Zevon The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to
me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
-- Lucille Ball Leros ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning
there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have
people all A White House well filled, a little peanut field well tilled, and a wife who will go to the Bronx are
great riches.
-- Poor Jimmy's Almanac Leros
You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are.
-- Gore Vidal In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been
widely regarded as a bad move.
-- Douglas Adams Leros "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau 'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 Leros
A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare Leros Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) Leros
Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future
generations There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous 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 Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan Leros They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to
get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
-- Billie Holliday blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain Leros
