Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
-- Alphonse Allais "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) "A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens Skiros "Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) Skiros
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) "The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost Skiros Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) "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 Skiros
We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty Skiros "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who,
doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a
machi Skiros
I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
wastes to Third Wo If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
-- Virginia Woolf "Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) Skiros Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard
Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3 Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein Skiros
Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going
to make fun of you.
-- Woody Allen A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson "If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia Skiros "The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe Skiros
Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Steven Wright Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
-- St. Francis of Assisi Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley Skiros "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The
gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
-- Thomas Arnold Bennet Skiros
Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who,
doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a
machi "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) Skiros "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or
failure has been dependent on the one he used most.
-- George R. Kirkpatrick Skiros
If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-- Samuel Butler No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation." (Larry Flynt) To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins Skiros Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) 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 don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) Skiros
Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to
benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.
-- Ralph Mars The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) Skiros Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery Skiros
We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we
respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
-- H. L. Mencken "The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
-- Byrd Baggett I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
-- Henry James Skiros If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
-- Scott Adams "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx Skiros
The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
-- Karl Wallenda All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Skiros I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware;
those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software.
-- Unknown author, Levitating T The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton Skiros
