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. The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa Lasithi "The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn
themselves to a life of vinegar.
-- Countess of Blessington Lasithi
Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to
get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
-- Billie Holliday "Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi "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." "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) Lasithi Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos Lasithi
"Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi "I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear ... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived." (Rabbi H "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) Lasithi "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five
isn't bad.
-- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 Lasithi
What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crow "I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real senten "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore
exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.
-- Slavoj Zizek Lasithi We look forward to the time when the power to love of will replace the love of power. Then will our
world know the blessings of peace.
-- William Gladstone Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart Lasithi
"The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. Lasithi There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
-- Albert Einstein Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke
or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
-- Charles Brower Lasithi
This compact disc is made from analog masters recorded without noise reduction. Half the tracks,
in fact, were recorded in a dismal, cheap basement eight-track studio with puddles of water on
the fl Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
-- Byrd Baggett "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) "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) Lasithi After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely
pleased to announce the appointment of David Steele to the post.
-- Philip Streifer, Superintendent 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 Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown Lasithi
"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 Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of
fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality
and 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 I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away,
the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. Lasithi blah "You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde 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 Lasithi
If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of
something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than
cocaine.
"The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. "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 "Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) Lasithi Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford Lasithi
Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 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 Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you
have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.
-- Aldous Huxley "I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin Lasithi "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
-- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight Lasithi
They were doing a full back shot of me in a swimsuit and I thought, Oh my God, I have to be so
brave. See, every woman hates herself from behind.
-- Cindy Crawford, supermodel Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick "That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, He who laughs, lasts.
-- Mary Pettibone Poole Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-- Indian proverb Lasithi There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to
learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
-- Michel de Montaigne Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Lasithi
"It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books--what other men do not say in whole books." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols) There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only th If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards Lasithi The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder Lasithi
