The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this
is true.
-- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
-- Robert M. Pirsig Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning "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) I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and
members of the Senate.
-- Dan Quayle, Former Vice-President Valentia Island The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism. --Heidi Hartmann [The Unhappy True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll Valentia Island
What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
-- Sigmund Freud Health food makes me sick.
-- Calvin Trillin The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Valentia Island I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't
certain we knew better.
-- George Bird Evans If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow Valentia Island
Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec "I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear ... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived." (Rabbi H Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) Valentia Island "I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 Valentia Island
"Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) "I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so Amer "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde 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 Valentia Island In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
-- Helen Rowland There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink Valentia Island
"I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always send them a plant to wish them well. Of course, it's a cactus." (Norman B Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and
quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that
remains fa A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your
girdle when your hips stick.
-- Ogden Nash We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already
were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Valentia Island I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me. -- Dick Martin Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) Valentia Island
Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something
different.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One
looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our
human A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Valentia Island Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you
together, but do so with all your heart.
-- Marcus Aurelius Valentia Island
Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had
never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
-- Orison Swett Marden "Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k Valentia Island blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton Valentia Island
We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
-- Charles Pierce Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show 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 "To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) Valentia Island Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware;
those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software.
-- Unknown author, Levitating T Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx Valentia Island
It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves
great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates
the The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. we are for the most part
more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.
-- Thoreau If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man
will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
-- Henry Ford Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
chastisement.
-- Ernest Dimnet Valentia Island "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Valentia Island
Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-- Ambrose Bierce If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) Valentia Island We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live Valentia Island
Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli Valentia Island There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way
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