Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician "My daughter has never forgiven me. for what, I don't know, because for years, she won't speak to me. She blackens my name in the press and makes me think abortion is an excellent idea." (Klaus Kinsk I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton Guide to understanding a net.addict's day:
Slow day: didn't have much to do, so spent three hours on usenet.
Busy day: managed to work in three hours of usenet.
Bad day: barely squeezed in three ho Kilcar When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu Kilcar
History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy
together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back
on at I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) Kilcar The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein "Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) Kilcar
"I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of
mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
-- Rita Mae Brown I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the
advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first.
-- Benjamin Franklin "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Kilcar Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe Kilcar
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 blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton "These are days you'll remember." If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony,
remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.
-- Christine Todd, NJ Governor, Whea Kilcar "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) 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 All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein Kilcar
Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.
-- General Douglas MacArthur English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet Kilcar Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
-- Beaumont, Francis Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health,
knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
-- Roger Babson Kilcar
The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
time 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 Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more
experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat
soiled or torn? Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde Never moon a werewolf.
-- Mike Binder Kilcar "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because
generally they are the same people.
-- G. K. Chesterton Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
-- Red Buttons Kilcar
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. Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
what you are getting.
-- Anonymous Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) Kilcar I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod Study men, not historians.
-- Harry Truman I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to
me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
-- Lucille Ball Kilcar
It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce 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 Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.
-- General Douglas MacArthur Kilcar Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. Just
flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Kilcar
He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Kilcar As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action
of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we
respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
-- H. L. Mencken "Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it Kilcar
Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell "Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Kilcar blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore
exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.
-- Slavoj Zizek Kilcar
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 Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
-- Will Rogers Kilcar He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine; as he
who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me.
-- Thomas Jefferson We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
-- Lord Dewar Kilcar
