Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and
joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not
as Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake "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) Epirus "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) "I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio." (Joan Rivers) "The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Epirus
We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's
age.
-- Modern Maturity The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too.
When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing
extraordinary Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage Epirus "I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi Epirus
I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian 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 An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
-- Robert A. Humphrey I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw Epirus "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find
out how to do it.
-- Theodore Roosevelt What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln Epirus
Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) "Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored..." (Herman Melville, I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates Epirus The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle Epirus
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
- Bertrand Russell
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A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl could want in her life, except for good
taste in men!
-- Wedding Toast I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.
-- Wayne Gretzky Epirus You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud Epirus
Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm
upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in
the palm "Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wit When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender Epirus There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
-- Igor Stravinsky Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
-- Alphonse Allais Epirus
"When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert "In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) Epirus Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald "I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats." (Woody Allen, in regard to the KKK) I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.
-- Barbara Bush, first lady, 1989 Epirus
"The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including:
* Both of your socks should always be the same color
* Or they should at least both be fairly dark
-- Dave Barry That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
-- Al Bernstein If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of
something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than
cocaine.
Epirus Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet Epirus
You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only
make $500,000.
-- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 "I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford Epirus The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent
crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry
inspe In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
-- Christopher Morley The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo Epirus
"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) I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
-- Douglas Adams "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) 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 No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac Epirus Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli Epirus
The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e "In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg Epirus Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would not live forever, because
we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live
forever, I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson "Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard)." (Edgar R. Fiedler) Epirus
