If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton "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) 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 To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson Borsod-Abauj-Zemplen County The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein Borsod-Abauj-Zemplen County
He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
-- Ernest Hemingway "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." "Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wit "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Borsod-Abauj-Zemplen County We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to
help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to
comfort us along "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
-- Francis Crawford Borsod-Abauj-Zemplen County
Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost "Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." (Dave Barry) "In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat." (Robert Byrne) "To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan Borsod-Abauj-Zemplen County Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
him.
-- Rich Little Borsod-Abauj-Zemplen County
In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
-- Helen Rowland "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln "If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." (Albert Einstein) Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin Borsod-Abauj-Zemplen County I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
-- Jules Renard "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 Borsod-Abauj-Zemplen County
For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of
pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.
-- Lyster We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley Borsod-Abauj-Zemplen County It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly Borsod-Abauj-Zemplen County
A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
-- Scott Adams Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns Borsod-Abauj-Zemplen County An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu Borsod-Abauj-Zemplen County
"Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the
table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the
disg 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 It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little Borsod-Abauj-Zemplen County Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith Borsod-Abauj-Zemplen County
It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal All you need is love.
-- The Beatles, song title "One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz Borsod-Abauj-Zemplen County Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual Go away...I'm alright.
-- H. G. Wells, dying words If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz Borsod-Abauj-Zemplen County
Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
-- Libbie Fudim 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 The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman Borsod-Abauj-Zemplen County "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.
-- Sigmund Freud When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
- George Washington Carver Borsod-Abauj-Zemplen County
Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin "See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does
not change his mind.
-- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) "Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) Borsod-Abauj-Zemplen County Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
-- Maya Angelou In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland Borsod-Abauj-Zemplen County
blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.
-- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley Borsod-Abauj-Zemplen County If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
one.
-- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri "To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
-- Hoshang N. Akhtar Borsod-Abauj-Zemplen County
