"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) Anyway, 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,
ign Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) blah "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Skopelos "We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. Skopelos
There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no
religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear
of The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because
generally they are the same people.
-- G. K. Chesterton Skopelos Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we
were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
-- John Stuart Mill Skopelos
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of
them, it's considered to be your style.
-- Fred Astaire All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde Skopelos Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of
responsibility at the other.
-- Ronald Reagan, Saturday Evening Post, 1965 Why doesn't she like me? Is it my hair, my overbite, the fact that I've worn the same shirt and
shorts for the last four years?
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated tele blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Skopelos
Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton In medieval times, people thought that evil spirits could enter a person through an open mouth.
These days they more often leave that way.
-- David Deckert If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass
produced with unskilled labor.
-- Wernher von Braun Skopelos America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel Skopelos
A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Skopelos We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier Correction: Instead of being arrested, as we stated, for kicking his wife down a flight of stairs and hurling a lighted kerosene lamp after her, the Rev. James P. Wellman died unmarried four years ago The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Skopelos
There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi "Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) Skopelos I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite
without any wish to act.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Skopelos
Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
-- Seen on a t-shirt There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to
help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to
comfort us along "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) Skopelos If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
-- Scott Adams At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Skopelos
Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with
the powerful, not to be neutral.
-- Paulo Freire Facts are the enemy of truth.
- Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca Skopelos "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) "All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw Skopelos
The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin 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 Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you
together, but do so with all your heart.
-- Marcus Aurelius 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 Skopelos Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu Skopelos
"Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises,
promotions, and other signs of appreciation.
-- Anonymous "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) Skopelos I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Indeed, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all.
-- Ogden Nash, Song of the Open Road, 1945 Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above
weakness Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper Skopelos
Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are
capable of being.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman Skopelos There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright Skopelos
