Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwile careers in the
street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack
of u When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find
that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our
pain Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
-- Anonymous "I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
-- Polish proverb Bluebell When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his
life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.
-- Francois Cavanna Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-- Carl Gustav Jung Bluebell
Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to
do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did.
-- Anonymous "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) "Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood Bluebell Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. "Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Bluebell
"Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the
writing will be just as it should be.
-- Mark Twain If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I Bluebell Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) Bluebell
Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem
mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's
chara The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines
staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you
ask th Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who
take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
-- INDIRA The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James Bluebell "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) "Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Bluebell
"If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
-- Oscar Wilde 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 "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Bluebell A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who
marries a man to reform him.
-- Elbert Hubbard blah "You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Bluebell
I still live.
-- Daniel Webster, dying words Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one.
-- Oscar Levant, to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President Bluebell "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 "Those who feel certainty are stupid and those with any imagination or understanding are filled with doubt and indecision." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) Bluebell
Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton Bluebell Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you
will become a philosopher.
-- Socrates We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa Bluebell
The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or
theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
-- George Santayana Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one "Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god." (Jean Rostand) Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem Bluebell "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) "Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning Bluebell
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 Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
-- Red Buttons There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) "Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) Bluebell Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke "The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only th Bluebell
The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) "From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Bluebell "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 The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song Bluebell
Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.
-- King George V Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.
-- R. Scott Richards Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
-- Albert Einstein Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
-- Beaumont, Francis Bluebell There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called
marriage.
-- James Holt McGavran "I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats." (Woody Allen, in regard to the KKK) When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill Bluebell
