Go away...I'm alright.
-- H. G. Wells, dying words "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
-- Mae West I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to
me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
-- Lucille Ball Viotia "Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing.
Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
-- Oscar Wilde "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) Viotia
It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and
discipline.
-- Michel de Montaigne Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry Viotia He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos Viotia
Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived
in this century. I didn't live in this century.
-- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 What's new? Most of my wife. Viotia Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student "Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous Viotia
"If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the
writing will be just as it should be.
-- Mark Twain 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 Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa Viotia "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. Viotia
"We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
- Sir Winston Churchill When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
-- Buckminster Viotia A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What
do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came
back with ano We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf Viotia
Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton Viotia Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
-- Oscar Wilde "This is the first age that's paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one." (Arthur C. Clarke) Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 Viotia
A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death Viotia "You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances
continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the
distance When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West Viotia
Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
-- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking
campaign Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley Viotia At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in
every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem Viotia
Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday
afternoon.
-- Susan Ertz A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson Viotia Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't
have done.
-- Malcolm Forbes I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how
to make it interesting.
-- Milton Berle, when called to the microphone at the 2nd Annual Comedians Hal Viotia
Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted.
-- Anonymous What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln Viotia "I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake Viotia
"Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) "There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips." (Elsa Lanchester) Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom Viotia Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones
you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in
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