Hungary News - Topix.net - News on Hungary continually updated from thousands of sources around the net.
They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
-- Anonymous Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the
second, "For my best friend."
-- Anonymous If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. News and Media "I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy News and Media
"Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Anonymous Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc
jockey is not allowed to talk.
-- Fran Lebowitz There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you
yourself have altered.
-- Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom News and Media "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) "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) An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie News and Media
If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not
know what to create.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.
-- Tom Robbins The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb News and Media Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst News and Media
In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore:
? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its
duties.
? Work If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There
are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's
reall News and Media The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model.
Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush...
-- Dawn French News and Media
Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future
generations He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West "Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the
opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
-- Oscar W News and Media Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf "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 A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are.
-- Gore Vidal News and Media
"Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for
themselves.
-- F. Emerson Andrews I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.
-- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
existence.
-- Sydney Smith News and Media "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin News and Media
The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause
we believe to be just.
-- Abraham Lincoln He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all
the time. That would be hypocrisy.
-- Oscar Wilde A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson News and Media Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.
-- R. Scott Richards News and Media
Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can
only read the title.
-- Virginia Woolf You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton "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) News and Media I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde News and Media
I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they
study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.
-- Gerald Early, writer, baseball do The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not,
the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms
with A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite
without any wish to act.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes
your wife.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show News and Media I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
write better.
- A. J. Liebling "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce News and Media
Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something
different.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper Dear Mrs, Mr, Miss, or Mr and Mrs Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action. -- C Jake liked his women the way he liked his kiwi fruit: sweet yet tart, firm-fleshed yet yielding to the
touch, and covered with short brown fuzzy hair.
-- Jonathan S. Haas "No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, g News and Media Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
definition, is unassailable.
-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
-- James Stephens News and Media
Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to
us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
-- Jeff Raskin Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-- Groucho Marx "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) "Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard)." (Edgar R. Fiedler) The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do
its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.
-- News and Media Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler The more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
-- Mark Twain News and Media
