It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
-- Benjamin Disraeli It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
-- Leslie Jeanne Sahler "Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) West Macedonia "What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux." (Thomas Pynchon) "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) West Macedonia
He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) West Macedonia 'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is
the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be
cr The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau West Macedonia
"A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing
changes and yet everything is completely different.
-- Aldous Huxley Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines
staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you
ask th Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood West Macedonia The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
-- Vince Lombardi "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) West Macedonia
To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up
something appropriate and do it.
-- E. W. Howe The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
-- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
neighborhood.
-- Maya Angelou When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche West Macedonia "Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not
mean his maker, but himself.
-- Dean Inge West Macedonia
"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, Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own
language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf West Macedonia No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) "I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon West Macedonia
"Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
write better.
- A. J. Liebling Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard West Macedonia Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in
a car he sticks his head out the window.
-- Steve Bluestone "Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details." (Andy Warhol, America, 1985) Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.
- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life West Macedonia
"Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the
time by watching the second hand of a clock.
-- Ben Hecht Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
-- Oscar Wilde, dying words West Macedonia Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson West Macedonia
blah "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
-- Mae West I don't think I'll get married again. I'll just find a woman I don't like and give her a house.
-- Lewis Grizzard "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really
lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.
-- Herman Melville West Macedonia "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) West Macedonia
I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche The more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
-- Mark Twain "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) "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) West Macedonia Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
-- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait West Macedonia
The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the
commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete
answer. In fact, women's total ins I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again.
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show West Macedonia "Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
-- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn West Macedonia
The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly good I thee endow.
-- Wedding Vow, Book of Common Prayer I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
-- Will Rogers "Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung West Macedonia This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun West Macedonia
