Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker "To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton "I've never let my school interfere with my education." (Mark Twain) Fokis It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
-- Leslie Jeanne Sahler Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
-- Phillip Brooks Fokis
No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
- William Jennings Bryan "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good
marriage
-- Martin Luther "Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures--in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together." Fokis Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
-- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting
married He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) Fokis
"Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) "Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel "If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) "Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) Fokis Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) Fokis
The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
-- Samuel Butler "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him.
-- Cher Fokis "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 "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell Fokis
Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
-- John Adams, dying words "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) "If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) Fokis Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
existence.
-- Sydney Smith "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde Fokis
Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window.
You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house.
-- Jean Ke You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
-- Albert Einstein All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde Fokis If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
-- Scott Adams "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) Fokis
The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause
we believe to be just.
-- Abraham Lincoln "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) "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) I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Fokis "If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as
saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball.
-- Deborah Tan My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who
take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
-- INDIRA Fokis
She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster Fokis Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) Fokis
Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
-- John Adams, dying words 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 "I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept
me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't
everythin I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call
me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
-- Rebecca West, Fokis Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke "Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) "'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, Through the Looking Glass) Fokis
Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
-- Finley Peter Dunne The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston "If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you t I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department
store and he asked for my autograph.
-- Shirley Temple Black Fokis Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac May you never leave your marriage alive. There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor Fokis
Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of
responsibility at the other.
-- Ronald Reagan, Saturday Evening Post, 1965 Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein Beginning in February 1976 your assistance benefits will be discontinued ... Reason: it has been
reported to our office that you expired on January 1, 1976.
-- excerpt from a letter, Illinois Depart If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Fokis The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My
answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer
to that would be "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it.
-- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long Fokis
