"When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
-- Oscar Wilde It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) Vedelago The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf "What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux." (Thomas Pynchon) Vedelago
Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have
had any experience with them.
-- H. L. Mencken "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more
they possess.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best
to become the best you are capable of becoming.
-- John R. Wooden, Practical Modern Basketball The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies Vedelago I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing
changes and yet everything is completely different.
-- Aldous Huxley A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Vedelago
Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
-- Rory Bremner "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
-- Will Rogers Vedelago "Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours." (Dale Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
-- Seen on a t-shirt Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-- Carl Gustav Jung Vedelago
"Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) "Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth Vedelago It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would
have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I
didn' The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to
substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
-- Iris Murdoch blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Vedelago
"The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) In view of all the deadly computer viruses that have been spreading lately, Weekend Update
would like to remind you: when you link up to another computer, you're linking up to every
computer that th You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and
retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Vedelago Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without
feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex,
the ugl To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to
finish without knowing what you have written.
-- Jean Jacques Rousseau The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford Vedelago
Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-- Dorothy Parker I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) Vedelago Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Anonymous Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
-- Herbert Westren Turnbull "Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) Vedelago
Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five
isn't bad.
-- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
-- Lily Tomlin "To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Vedelago "Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) "Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Vedelago
Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
-- Byrd Baggett Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte "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) As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust
there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
-- Andre Norton Vedelago "That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon Vedelago
In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the
next meal would come from.
-- Peter F. Drucker Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud "Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely
to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to Vedelago The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-- ee cummings "Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. Vedelago
Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
-- Ray Bandy "Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
-- Roger Babson Vedelago Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it.
-- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer Vedelago
Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton "Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? 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 Vedelago "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) 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 Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday Vedelago
