Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be
paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's
life We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx Levkas ... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more
aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since
Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
-- Isaac B. Singer Levkas
Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu Levkas Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
automobile.
-- Billy Sunday No other success can compensate for failure in the home.
-- David O. McKay, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Advice to parents at General Conference of he
LDS Church, April, 1964 Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
-- Albert Einstein Levkas
"The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
-- Helen Keller The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
-- George Santayana And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln Levkas As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) "The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Levkas
Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins Levkas "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 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 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
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Weaseling out of things is good. It's what separates us from the other animals....except weasels.
-- Homer Simpson, character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau Levkas Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
ages as much as 20 years.
-- Anonymous "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) Levkas
Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong
and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny
is but th "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) 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 blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) "Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra) Levkas Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin 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 Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a
thing to be acheived.
-- William Jennings Bryant Levkas
If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
-- Vince Lombardi Levkas The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
-- Winston Churchill Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort Levkas
A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
- Karl Wallenda "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein Levkas 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 There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
-- Oscar Wilde "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) Levkas
"Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it." (Colin Powell) We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would not live forever, because
we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live
forever, Levkas It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld I do not see the EEC as a great love affair. It is more like nine desperate middle-ages couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope. -- Tynan "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) Levkas
It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed.
They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position.
-- John Hogan, Commonwealth "Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) 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 "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks Levkas All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it
is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) Levkas
A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx Levkas The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents Levkas
