Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The
premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool.
-- Kelvin Throop I "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) Baranya County "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman
is one who can find such a man.
-- Lana Turner 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 Baranya County
In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) "Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry Baranya County You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By
giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you
will "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz Baranya County
"When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) Not to anticipate is already to moan.
-- Leonardo da Vinci Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with
the powerful, not to be neutral.
-- Paulo Freire If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr Baranya County Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George bernard Shaw Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. Baranya County
Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up
our minds to walk boldly through them.
-- Orison Swett Marden "I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde Baranya County "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) "From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) Baranya County
"When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wro I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton "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 The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde Baranya County Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song Baranya County
The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was
doing spying.
-- Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets for spying, in an i A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that.
-- Shakespeare, William When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Baranya County I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 Baranya County
Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
-- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton "I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) Baranya County "Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
-- Herbert Westren Turnbull Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler Baranya County
What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their
graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort.
-- Sydney Smith A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
-- Edgar Watson Howe For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
-- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun Baranya County Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
-- Hermione Gingold I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce Baranya County
"Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley "Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Baranya County In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson Baranya County
"I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower."
"Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!"
-- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith 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 There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some
simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion.
-- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 Baranya County Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.
-- Tom Robbins Baranya County
"May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau Baranya County Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
- James Stephens 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 "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Baranya County
