A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they
can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and
stupid from "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) South Aegean Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre >From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea--written in red on every
beachhead form Australia to Tokyo--There is no substitute for victory!
-- General Douglas MacArthur "Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) South Aegean
"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) If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. -- Socrates Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
-- Arthur C. Coxe She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James South Aegean In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not
allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating,
stealing, Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb South Aegean
I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and
tomorrow aint as bad as it seems.
-- Billy Joel If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
legislators.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol South Aegean The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One
cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the
marvelous str "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde South Aegean
Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
-- Albert Einstein South Aegean I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way
of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage
he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it.
-- Anon. All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery
increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control
futur South Aegean
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein "A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill South Aegean Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards South Aegean
What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crowf If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
-- Publilius Syrus South Aegean I don't feel good.
-- Luther Burbank, dying words Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell South Aegean
I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call
me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
-- Rebecca West, I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all
over it and put your name at the top.
-- English Professor, Ohio University "Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but
as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!"
-- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) South Aegean "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 South Aegean
An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood "Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton South Aegean "In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man
will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
-- Henry Ford Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately
becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in
those tiny toil South Aegean
Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-- Stephen Covey A White House well filled, a little peanut field well tilled, and a wife who will go to the Bronx are
great riches.
-- Poor Jimmy's Almanac The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat
guy in the third row exists?
-- Woody Allen 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 South Aegean Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not
allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating,
stealing, Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
-- H. L. Mencken South Aegean
The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are
capable of being.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I
believed in liberals...
-- G. K. Chesterton Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. South Aegean The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell South Aegean
Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
-- Brian Pickrell We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
-- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm South Aegean A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton South Aegean
