Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde "Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us.
-- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) Central Macedonia "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 I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx Not to anticipate is already to moan.
-- Leonardo da Vinci Central Macedonia
When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He
experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of
optic "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Central Macedonia "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw Central Macedonia
Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) 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 The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost Central Macedonia Man is a natural polygamist. He always has one woman leading him by the nose and another
hanging on to his coattails.
-- H. L. Mencken Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain
as marijuana...The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two, but can't
remember what Facts are the enemy of truth.
- Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha Central Macedonia
Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another
to the world.
-- Antonio Machado Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich Central Macedonia My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me!
-- Henry Ford 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 Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 Central Macedonia
The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the
lessons that history has to teach.
-- Aldous Huxley We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
-- Isaac B. Singer Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi Central Macedonia Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
-- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. Central Macedonia
Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be
closed for any other business.
-- Abraham Lincoln Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-
inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least
expect i "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) Central Macedonia A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire Facts are the enemy of truth.
- Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family.
-- Navaho saying Central Macedonia
There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
write better.
- A. J. Liebling Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
pure ignorance?
-- Holbrook Jackson Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
- Robert Orben I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-- Gilda Radner Central Macedonia Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment.
-- Voltaire Central Macedonia
Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
bureaucracy won't.
-- Hyman Rickover A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
-- Sidney Goff Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle Central Macedonia If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh Central Macedonia
For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate,
the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
-- Rainer Maria Ril I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. "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) They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to
run his, either.
-- Anonymous A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos Central Macedonia Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James "It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck Central Macedonia
Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "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) It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at
heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels,
upon the lev Central Macedonia It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Central Macedonia
"Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does
come, we no longer exist.
-- Epicurus "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 If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
-- Libbie Fudim Central Macedonia I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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