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History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point Toblach Here's to you and here's to me,
and I hope we never disagree.
But, if that should ever be,
to HELL with you, here's to ME!
-- Anonymous Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of
our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
-- John Adams Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton Toblach
The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to
passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are . . .
grand The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
it.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) Toblach "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) 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 Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck Toblach
Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde Toblach Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
-- Finley Peter Dunne May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
-- Elbert Hubbard Toblach
Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
definition, is unassailable.
-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham "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 Toblach Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain Toblach
The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp "The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be
built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
-- Anne S "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Toblach Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein "For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov Toblach
To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore:
? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its
duties.
? Work Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 Toblach "Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford Toblach
Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
-- Mother Teresa blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) Toblach Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims
of intact ones.
-- Peter DeVries Toblach
People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST Toblach Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln Toblach
"Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
neighborhood.
-- Maya Angelou Toblach "Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) Man and wife make one fool. "If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) Toblach
"It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) "Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) "I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) Toblach "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In
this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
-- Marianne Williamson Toblach
In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if
he finds her.
-- Benjamin Tillett An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson Toblach Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country
could do under first-class management.
-- Senator Soaper Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain "The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Toblach
