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In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the
unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is
also the m "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
-- Francis Crawford We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution,
of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always
be I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh Latvia Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you
can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist.
-- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
-- James Stephens Latvia
Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is
thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.
-- Henry Wadsworth Lo Latvia Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're
the boss."
-- Anonymous Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to
benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.
-- Ralph Mars Latvia
The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen
closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping.
-- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau "God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) Latvia Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its
prime function of looking forward.
-- Margaret Fairless Barber Latvia
There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld "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." Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no
character.
-- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig Latvia When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland "For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom Latvia
Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
-- Buck Henry Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois Latvia Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was
60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is.
-- Ellen DeGeneres We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were
reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing,
and Latvia
Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Latvia 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 "I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to
learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
-- Michel de Montaigne Latvia
A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
-- Clarence Darrow Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright Latvia If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment.
-- Voltaire Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger Latvia
I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department
store and he asked for my autograph.
-- Shirley Temple Black Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it,
Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me
de He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) Latvia Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) Latvia
There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl Latvia When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his
cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that
Uncl Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) Latvia
In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how
many can get through to you.
-- Mortimer J. Adler Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-- Abraham Lincoln The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
it.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage,
he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it.
-- Helen Roland Latvia "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) 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
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People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no
character.
-- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer "The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw Latvia Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
and bought jewelry.
-- Rita Rudner Latvia
