Paratiritis - Enterprise active in the fields of publishing, culture and mass media, located in Thessaloniki, Greece.
Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen "Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
-- Igor Stravinsky Publishing "Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Publishing
A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman
is one who can find such a man.
-- Lana Turner The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is
that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one.
-- Anonymous Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting The telephone company is urging people to *please* not use the telephone unless it is absolutely
necessary in order to keep the lines open for emergency personnel. We'll be right back after this
bre "Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) Publishing "Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison Publishing
What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) Publishing "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw Publishing
"It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.
-- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War Publishing "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing. "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) Publishing
"Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
-- Ambrose Bierce Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison "Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) Publishing "Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) Publishing
Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had
never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
-- Orison Swett Marden "The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) 2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time.
-- inside of a Pepsi cap "In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat." (Robert Byrne) Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand Publishing "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) 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 Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? Publishing
"If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism. --Heidi Hartmann [The Unhappy Publishing "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) "For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous Publishing
Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) Publishing It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain "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) "In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat." (Robert Byrne) Publishing
To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good
marriage
-- Martin Luther Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis Publishing I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
-- Albert Einstein I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx Publishing
Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) "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) He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe Publishing Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way
to bet.
-- Damon Runyan Publishing
"Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god." (Jean Rostand) 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 Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
-- Woody Allen Publishing "I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Publishing
