A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing.
-- George Benard Shaw There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty "Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
imagination.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Etolo-Akarnania "Friends are those people who know the words to the song in your heart and sing them back to you when you have forgotten the words." (Anonymous) Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem Etolo-Akarnania
Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald "Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s When Baby's cries grew hard to bear I popped him in the Frigidaire. I never would have done so if
I'd known that he'd be frozen stiff. My wife said, "George, I'm so unhappy! Our darling's now
comple If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would
be able to endure it.
-- Schopenhauer "Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) Etolo-Akarnania 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 "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) "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) Etolo-Akarnania
Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
coattails.
-- Clarence Darrow The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
-- George Bernard Shaw The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do
its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.
-- 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. Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney Etolo-Akarnania Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.
-- King George V "A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams Etolo-Akarnania
See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo "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 Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr Etolo-Akarnania America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau I tried a mail order bride, once, but she was damaged in the mail, and I had to return the unused part for my full refund. "If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) Etolo-Akarnania
"There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous "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) Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Etolo-Akarnania 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 Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Etolo-Akarnania
A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) Etolo-Akarnania The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to
us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
-- Jeff Raskin Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Etolo-Akarnania
As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action
of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. 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 It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
happen to him.
-- John Barrymore - last words "The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) Etolo-Akarnania Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
-- Gloria Leonard I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like
a black mistake.
-- D. H. Lawrence Etolo-Akarnania
"One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop "In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Etolo-Akarnania Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein When you're away, I'm restless, lonely
Wretched, bored, dejected; only
here's the rub, my darling dear,
I feel the same when you are here.
-- Samuel Hoffenstein Etolo-Akarnania
"When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other
is ready.
-- Henry David Thoreau Etolo-Akarnania A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your
girdle when your hips stick.
-- Ogden Nash As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President Etolo-Akarnania
"The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
- George Bernard Shaw 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 I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
-- Will Rogers Etolo-Akarnania I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady
in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me.
-- Dick Martin If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous Etolo-Akarnania
Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides 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 Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" Etolo-Akarnania It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's
being off the network.
-- Guy Almes It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is
the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be
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