"The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh Moyvane Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde Moyvane
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth "Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne Moyvane In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne Moyvane
"We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) "The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw Moyvane Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner "I offer images; I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached ... But, we can only open the doors. We can't drag people through. I can't free them unless they want to be free--more than any We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa Moyvane
Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
-- Albert Einstein I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the
marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.
-- Bette Davis University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson Moyvane "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein Moyvane
I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer "Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker
room is the temple where they worship arrested development.
-- Russell Baker Icky icky icky icky fKANG zoop-boing n zowzyin...
-- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show Moyvane The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat
guy in the third row exists?
-- Woody Allen "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Moyvane
Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
-- Albert Einstein A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz Moyvane When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up
something appropriate and do it.
-- E. W. Howe If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
bureaucracy won't.
-- Hyman Rickover No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. Moyvane
What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill "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) Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin Moyvane Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov 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 If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your
thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be.
-- Richard Mitchell, from Moyvane
"No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) "Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) "I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free." (Walker Percy, The Moviegoer) Moyvane "It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality." (Francois Sagan) .. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over
myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long
per Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan Moyvane
To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept
me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't
everythin Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
-- George Santayana To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. Moyvane Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not
impress the neighbors as being very much.
-- Zora Neale Hurston "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) If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr Moyvane
Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted.
-- Anonymous "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine Moyvane Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on
tormenting the generations to come.
-- Montesquieu Moyvane
We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
- George Bernard Shaw This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. Moyvane For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely
unnatural condition.
-- Robert Briffault A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing.
-- George Benard Shaw To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins Moyvane
