Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely
to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) Evritania I don't think I'll get married again. I'll just find a woman I don't like and give her a house.
-- Lewis Grizzard One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
reputation.
-- Oscar Wilde I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject,
when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron
scumbags dev Evritania
Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
car.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry Evritania Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 Evritania
Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust
there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
-- Andre Norton 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 Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor Evritania Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with
the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
-- Cynthia Heimel When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
-- Ernest Hemingway Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Evritania
"It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are
certain, they do not refer to reality.
-- Albert Einstein Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Steven Wright Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns Evritania My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating
influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the
commun Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton Evritania
America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
-- Satchel Paige Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Borge The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw Evritania Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop
questioning.
-- Albert Einstein It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton Evritania
Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
toys?
-- Douglas Coupland Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the
false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
-- Salvador Dali Evritania The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
-- Robert M. Pirsig "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) Evritania
Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way
of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde Evritania A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx "Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Evritania
"In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too
conservative.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
-- Mae West Evritania Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is
merely a good excuse not to play football.
-- Fran Lebowitz Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem
mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's
chara Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
ages as much as 20 years.
-- Anonymous Evritania
"There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
-- Mother Teresa "In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) "Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) Evritania Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) "Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) Evritania
Saying that Windows95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and
believing you've witnessed the second coming.
-- Guy Kawasaki Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan Evritania A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their
graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort.
-- Sydney Smith I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton Evritania
"It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw Evritania 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 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? Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
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