When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims
of intact ones.
-- Peter DeVries He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
-- J. Heller Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
-- Albert Einstein I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard Zakynthos "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
toys?
-- Douglas Coupland Zakynthos
To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its
prime function of looking forward.
-- Margaret Fairless Barber Good friends are good for your health.
-- Irwin Sarason "To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good
results: drag behind car through puddles, blow-dry on roofrack.
-- Laundry instructions on a shirt Zakynthos Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
-- Samuel Johnson And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard Zakynthos
"How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein Zakynthos "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) Zakynthos
Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. The west wasn't won on salad.
-- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 Per cubic inch, your current TV set is perhaps the dumbest appliance in your home (and I'm not
even talking about the programs).
-- Nicholas Negroponte "A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) Zakynthos Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld "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) Zakynthos
There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
imagination.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
-- Phillip Brooks Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when
people laugh.
-- George Bernard Shaw There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) Zakynthos The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
-- Woody Allen I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like
a black mistake.
-- D. H. Lawrence Zakynthos
I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman Zakynthos When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson Zakynthos
Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
-- Erica Jong "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your
thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be.
-- Richard Mitchell, from Zakynthos There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "Friends are those people who know the words to the song in your heart and sing them back to you when you have forgotten the words." (Anonymous) "The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only th Zakynthos
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley "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) I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi Zakynthos As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) Zakynthos
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 Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!
-- Dr. Strangelove Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
-- Red Buttons Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain Zakynthos Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton Zakynthos
The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso "In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes Zakynthos If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
-- Scott Adams Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Zakynthos
My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is
when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.
-- Marcel Achard Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton Zakynthos The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
-- Publilius Syrus We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
-- Isaac B. Singer "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) Zakynthos
