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Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
-- Tom Robbins I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
car.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker 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 Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and
illiterate sport fishermen.
-- P. J. O'Rourke If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom Pompu I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau Pompu
The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone May you never leave your marriage alive. An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for
love is measured by fullness, not by reception.
-- Harold Loukes "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels Pompu "I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot Pompu
If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis 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 "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon 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) Pompu Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell Pompu
Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger,
as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is
when you r "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Pompu It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are
difficult.
-- Lucius Anneaus Seneca It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are
difficult.
-- Lucius Anneaus Seneca Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley Pompu
Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
-- Phillip Brooks Pompu "Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber "The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) Pompu
If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee.
-- Anonymous A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Guitry What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." Pompu Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger,
as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is
when you r What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) Pompu
Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
-- Polish proverb To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation.
-- Latin Proverb It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are
difficult.
-- Lucius Anneaus Seneca A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey "Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) Pompu "This is the first age that's paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one." (Arthur C. Clarke) To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz Pompu
Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 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 Pompu I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He
experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of
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"Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.
-- R. Scott Richards A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning Pompu It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?
-- Michael Meissner The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley Pompu
If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
-- Lily Tomlin The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things!
-- Tom Lehrer It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau 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. Pompu If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
one.
-- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them
down people's throats.
-- Howard Aiken Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) Pompu
blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) "To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
-- Igor Stravinsky Tear open packet, unfold and use.
-- Directions on moist towelette package Pompu When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his ownself in his own hands. Like water. And if he
opens his fingers then- he needn't hope to find himself again.
-- Robert Bolt from A Man For All Seas Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The
gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
-- Thomas Arnold Bennet "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) Pompu
