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 Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the
second, "For my best friend."
-- Anonymous If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht Florina "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) 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 It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Florina
Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The
premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool.
-- Kelvin Throop I When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
- Buckminster "Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart Florina It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West "Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber Florina
"What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee.
-- Anonymous Florina "Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but
as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!"
-- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your
way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition -- plowing straight ahead, come what
may "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Florina
Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed 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 My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein Florina "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to
finish without knowing what you have written.
-- Jean Jacques Rousseau Florina
The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
-- Publilius Syrus "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) The nourishment is palatable.
-- Millard Fillmore, dying words Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Florina "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the
opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
-- Oscar W Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra Florina
Silence is argument carried out by other means.
- ErnestoCheGuevara When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous Florina "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of
them, it's considered to be your style.
-- Fred Astaire Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous Florina
We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith Florina Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
-- George Jean Nathan In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams Florina
May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.
-- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995 "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I
was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper.
-- Smith & Jones Florina What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker "Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) Florina
Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler 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 "To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Florina Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 Florina
"I'll endorse with my name any of the following; clothing AC-DC, cigarettes, small tapes, sound equipment, ROCK N' ROLL RECORDS, anything, film, and film equipment, Food, Helium, Whips, MONEY!!" (And I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. I'll sleep when I'm dead.
- Warren Zevon Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau Florina Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find
out how to do it.
-- Theodore Roosevelt Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had
never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
-- Orison Swett Marden "If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) Florina
Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
-- Erma Bombeck "God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.
-- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his
campaign pledge that there would be "The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is n If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury Florina Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Florina
