Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of
suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room.
-- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
-- Polish proverb Vestmannaeyjar In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) Vestmannaeyjar
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.
-- John Murray "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst Vestmannaeyjar "It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork
picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
-- Tom Stoppard "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) Vestmannaeyjar
Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.
-- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his
campaign pledge that there would be Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu Vestmannaeyjar I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein "The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway Vestmannaeyjar
"Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Never moon a werewolf.
-- Mike Binder "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, 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 A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost Vestmannaeyjar If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would
be able to endure it.
-- Schopenhauer "Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) "Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) Vestmannaeyjar
I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian Health food makes me sick.
-- Calvin Trillin Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre 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 Vestmannaeyjar I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward "Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
- William Jennings Bryan Vestmannaeyjar
I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never
be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
-- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Vestmannaeyjar "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
-- Albert Einstein Honor lies in honest toil.
-- Grover Cleveland Vestmannaeyjar
The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
-- Stanislaw J. Lem Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you
a hundre "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) Vestmannaeyjar Goodbye, Everybody!
-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson "There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips." (Elsa Lanchester) Vestmannaeyjar
"I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage
he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it.
-- Anon. "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb Vestmannaeyjar Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics a I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup Vestmannaeyjar
"The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a
thing to be acheived.
-- William Jennings Bryant Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
-- Ray Bandy Vestmannaeyjar A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 Vestmannaeyjar
"I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than
the procreation of children.
-- Thornton Wilder The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
- Lucille S. Harper Vestmannaeyjar Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
happen to him.
-- John Barrymore - last words "Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy Vestmannaeyjar
Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Louis Berlioz Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of
fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality
and "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
-- Phillip Brooks Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in
accordance with the dictates of reason.
-- Oscar Wilde Vestmannaeyjar To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash Health food makes me sick.
-- Calvin Trillin "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Vestmannaeyjar
