Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
-- Joseph Addison "Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god." (Jean Rostand) The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
- Lucille S. Harper Ftiotis It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais "Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em." (William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, II:5) "Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) Ftiotis
If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
-- James McNeill Whistler "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to
know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.
- Clarence Darrow, "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) Ftiotis "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous "No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." (Henry B. Adams) Ftiotis
"Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical
deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
-- Albert Einstein "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) I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put
over my kitchen table.
-- Rodney Dangerfield I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.
-- David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes. Ftiotis "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz Ftiotis
Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
-- Vladimir Nabokov Ftiotis "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein "We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses Ftiotis
Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
-- Erma Bombeck "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) 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 "Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) Ftiotis Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
it.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton "This is the first age that's paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one." (Arthur C. Clarke) Ftiotis
Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
-- Charles Pierce You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler "Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) Ftiotis I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake Ftiotis
"The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how
many can get through to you.
-- Mortimer J. Adler Ftiotis MARRIAGE, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two
slaves, making in all, two.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce
intelligence.
-- Philo Vance "We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses Ftiotis
Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker
room is the temple where they worship arrested development.
-- Russell Baker "To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) Ftiotis "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
-- Vince Lombardi Ftiotis
blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau Ftiotis What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
-- Woody Allen If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards "Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) Ftiotis
Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
-- Herbert Westren Turnbull Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature
intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times
worse tha The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.
-- Mark Twain We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us.
-- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark
in one another.
-- Kenny Ausubel Ftiotis Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There
are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's
reall Ftiotis
Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle "I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always send them a plant to wish them well. Of course, it's a cactus." (Norman B To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi Ftiotis Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy Ftiotis
