"I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) 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 Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) "All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) Rodhopi It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
-- Vince Lombardi Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau Rodhopi
Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. "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' Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary
to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.'
-- Bierce, A Rodhopi "Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg Rodhopi
Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle "Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
-- Albert Einstein Rodhopi "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
-- Oscar Wilde 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 Rodhopi
"Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) Rodhopi The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) "I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats." (Woody Allen, in regard to the KKK) Rodhopi
"What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
- Samuel Palmer Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
bathroom in the middle of it.
-- Nick Mirov Rodhopi "If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender Rodhopi
"Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not
mean his maker, but himself.
-- Dean Inge To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
-- Adela Rogers St. John "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Rodhopi Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc
jockey is not allowed to talk.
-- Fran Lebowitz Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun Rodhopi
Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature
machine gun.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops
were side by side in the Italian village of Cremona. First were the Amatis, and outside their shop
hung Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more
experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat
soiled or torn? They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
-- Anonymous 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 Rodhopi An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
- James Stephens I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane Rodhopi
"I offer images; I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached ... But, we can only open the doors. We can't drag people through. I can't free them unless they want to be free--more than any "The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) "Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation." (Larry Flynt) I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV Rodhopi Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet Rodhopi
The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) Rodhopi 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, If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
-- Scott Adams Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you
a hundre Rodhopi
Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called
marriage.
-- James Holt McGavran "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) "The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) Rodhopi "Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) "Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. Rodhopi
The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
--Loesje I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
-- Douglas Adams Rodhopi Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
-- Rita Rudner "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson Rodhopi
