Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the
advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first.
-- Benjamin Franklin The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
bad ones.
-- W. Somerset Maugham He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.
-- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his
campaign pledge that there would be Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Messinia How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create
it herself.
- Anais Nin Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein "I put on an act sometimes, and people think I'm insensitive. Really, it's like a kind of armor because I'm too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I' Messinia
Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that
M&Ms really do melt in your hand...
-- Peter Oakley 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 Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife Messinia "There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward Messinia
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) When Baby's cries grew hard to bear I popped him in the Frigidaire. I never would have done so if
I'd known that he'd be frozen stiff. My wife said, "George, I'm so unhappy! Our darling's now
comple "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) Health food makes me sick.
-- Calvin Trillin "Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of g Messinia "If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali Messinia
All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) Messinia I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they
can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and
stupid from Messinia
Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl could want in her life, except for good
taste in men!
-- Wedding Toast You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) Messinia We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us.
-- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
ethical infants.
-- General Omar Bradley Messinia
"Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) Messinia When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I ask
is a chance."
-- Anon. Go away...I'm alright.
-- H. G. Wells, dying words The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by
trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by l Messinia
There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good
marriage
-- Martin Luther The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too.
When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing
extraordinary Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing
changes and yet everything is completely different.
-- Aldous Huxley It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some
simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion.
-- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 Messinia You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in
opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
-- Sydney Smith Work is a four-letter word.
-- The Smiths (Morrissey) Messinia
"Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked
me in the cellar.
-- Anonymous Messinia Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. Messinia
blah "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) "Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details." (Andy Warhol, America, 1985) The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill "Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Messinia "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Messinia
It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. Messinia Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) Messinia
The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
-- Brian Pickrell For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson
articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are
apparently based "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) Messinia And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts,
in living color, you're about to see another first -- an attempted suicide.
-- Chris Hubbock, who sh If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon Messinia
