To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country
could do under first-class management.
-- Senator Soaper Halkidiki "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) Halkidiki
This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain Halkidiki Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 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 Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
-- Igor Stravinsky Halkidiki
What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples'
decisions for them?
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
-- Sidney Goff The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.
- Henry Kissinger "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) Halkidiki A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is
simply one of those things which happen from time to time.
-- Edward P. Tryon Halkidiki
"Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) Just buy a box of popcorn and a Coca-Cola and sit back and watch.
-- James Carville, Clinton advisor, offering advice for Democrats on the term-limits vote in the
House Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
-- Byrd Baggett Halkidiki "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw Halkidiki
"Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon "Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) Halkidiki Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the
commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete
answer. In fact, women's total ins Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Halkidiki
We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche "For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) The west wasn't won on salad.
-- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you
get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a
Halkidiki In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not
allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating,
stealing, When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment... it's
exciting to have a real crisis on your hands.
-- Margaret Thatcher, on the Falklands Conflict I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that
M&Ms really do melt in your hand...
-- Peter Oakley Halkidiki
"We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) "I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w Halkidiki Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary
to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.'
-- Bierce, A Dear Mrs, Mr, Miss, or Mr and Mrs Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action. -- C The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton Halkidiki
Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things.
-- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being
gummed by a newt. It doesn't actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle.
-- Molly Ivins It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) Halkidiki If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if
he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli Halkidiki
I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) Women's liberationists spread the word that...the only peaceful family is one in which either the
wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous.
-- R. Emmett Tyell, The Liberal Crack-Up, 1984 Halkidiki There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's
being off the network.
-- Guy Almes Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Anonymous Halkidiki
All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in
charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
-- Hen An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One
looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our
human In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent...
-- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported
in a contemporary "American Scholar" We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers Halkidiki "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 blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch Halkidiki
Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) Halkidiki Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
-- Samuel Johnson 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 The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute
for life.
-- Andrew Brown Halkidiki