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Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown "Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room
enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.
-- Fred Allen Thessaloniki "Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
- James Stephens Thessaloniki
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 We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are
certain, they do not refer to reality.
-- Albert Einstein Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the
consequences.
-- Isadora Duncan He who laughs, lasts.
-- Mary Pettibone Poole Thessaloniki "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Thessaloniki
"Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
-- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three
children and no theories.
-- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell Thessaloniki I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken Thessaloniki
Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One
looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our
human Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of
them become real as you can.
-- Frank W. Woolworth Thessaloniki Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a
natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend Thessaloniki
Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler Thessaloniki If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde Thessaloniki
Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger "The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and
illiterate sport fishermen.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Thessaloniki Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce
intelligence.
-- Philo Vance Thessaloniki
"I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health,
knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
-- Roger Babson "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) 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 "Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) Thessaloniki The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
-- Tom Robbins Thessaloniki
Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen "Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) Thessaloniki "From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) 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. "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) Thessaloniki
Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
-- Anonymous Thessaloniki Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.
-- Wayne Gretzky "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) Thessaloniki
Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it.
-- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken Thessaloniki Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
-- Oscar Wilde "One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason Thessaloniki
Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
can't read.
-- Frank Zappa NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows
how to make us disobedient.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton Thessaloniki Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement
speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have
th A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller Thessaloniki
