"All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the
really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
-- Mark Twain Goodbye, Everybody!
-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller Kozani Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
-- Roger Simon Kozani
Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton "The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard Kozani If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-- Abraham Lincoln I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all
over it and put your name at the top.
-- English Professor, Ohio University Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder Kozani
The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
- George Bernard Shaw "Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician Kozani The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. "People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and
therefore congenial to it.
-- G. K. Chesterton Kozani
However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. Kozani Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland Kozani
Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of
humor is just common sense, dancing.
-- Clive James If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes
in search of martyrdom is that the former expresses his idea most fully in death while the latter
really "And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin Kozani "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) "See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and "When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Kozani
When you're away, I'm restless, lonely
Wretched, bored, dejected; only
here's the rub, my darling dear,
I feel the same when you are here.
-- Samuel Hoffenstein We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The
rest is trust.
-- Nanette Newman, British actress Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!
-- Dr. Strangelove Kozani It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
-- Emiliano Zapata The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes
in search of martyrdom is that the former expresses his idea most fully in death while the latter
really He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
-- Terry Cohen Kozani
To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of
humor is just common sense, dancing.
-- Clive James There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a
brand new ending.
-- Anonymous Kozani Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
-- Herbert Westren Turnbull "An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid." (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th earl of) Kozani
"Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than
the procreation of children.
-- Thornton Wilder Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
-- Oscar Wilde, dying words "In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the
instrument plays itself.
-- Johann Sebastian Bach Kozani I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me
is another matter.
- Sir Winston Churchill People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. Kozani
The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." "Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) Kozani When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
legislators.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker Kozani
Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.
- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life "I should reproach him for not giving us enough evidence." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970, what he would say to God if they 'met') Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody 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, Saying that Windows95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and
believing you've witnessed the second coming.
-- Guy Kawasaki Kozani "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 Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard
Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3 Kozani
It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein "Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii "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 "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Kozani Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
-- Byrd Baggett Kozani
