Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Ioannina "God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Ioannina
When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland 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 An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
-- Robert A. Humphrey "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin Ioannina One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really
lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.
-- Herman Melville What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
-- Gertrude Stein, dying words Ioannina
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 The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill Anything too stupid to be said, is sung.
-- Voltaire Ioannina The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
-- Colin Wilson "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw Ioannina
The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
-- Mae West Ioannina "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) Ioannina
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 When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
the workmanship.
-- John Renmerde If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways
to be, you know that there are...
-- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) Ioannina Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw "I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) Ioannina
If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to
contact us.
-- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes "Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) Ioannina A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good
results: drag behind car through puddles, blow-dry on roofrack.
-- Laundry instructions on a shirt Ioannina
Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous Ioannina The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
-- Robert M. Pirsig I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.
-- Wayne Gretzky The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.
- Henry Kissinger Ioannina
I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
-- Vince Lombardi Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III Ioannina Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain
as marijuana...The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two, but can't
remember what Ioannina
Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein Ioannina 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 "No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, g I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and
members of the Senate.
-- Dan Quayle, Former Vice-President Ioannina
You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The
average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted
to "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What
do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came
back with ano "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) Ioannina Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
-- Oscar Wilde, dying words Ioannina
Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up
our minds to walk boldly through them.
-- Orison Swett Marden The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken 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 Ioannina "God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) Ioannina
