Fantastica Murals by Luke Whiteley - Istvan Siklos, renowned Hungarian emigre, poet and broadcaster left a unique and impressive legacy of 4000 Hungarian books.
You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
-- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking
campaign Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal Books "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide Books
What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is
that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one.
-- Anonymous As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln Books "The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal Books
"Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours." (Dale "Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation." (Larry Flynt) "Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours." (Dale And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Books Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you
underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
-- Oscar Wilde The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows Books
Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov Books Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. "Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Books
I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
-- Will Rogers We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni "Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and
therefore congenial to it.
-- G. K. Chesterton Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-- Indian proverb Books And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
-- Mother Teresa Books
"God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde Books Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous Books
He who laughs, lasts.
-- Mary Pettibone Poole Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same
joke and still feel lonely.
-- T. S. Eliot Books Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday
afternoon.
-- Susan Ertz "Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein Books
"Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
-- Francis Crawford He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) Books Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
-- Anonymous Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) Books
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how
to make it interesting.
-- Milton Berle, when called to the microphone at the 2nd Annual Comedians Hal The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb Books Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset "The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams Books
I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
-- Douglas Adams Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
-- Ralph Marston 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 Books "Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
-- Plutarch The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein Books
"Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein 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 "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Books Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Books
