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I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy
contests, but they keep the crowd's attention.
-- Anonymous Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. "We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe Ventspils Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
-- Woodrow Wyatt A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer Ventspils
Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the
opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
-- Oscar W "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
-- Douglas Adams I'll sleep when I'm dead.
- Warren Zevon Ventspils blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the
slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional
convi Ventspils
Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
-- Albert Einstein "Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell Ventspils Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should
live honourably.
-- Kant, Immanuel Ventspils
The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of
pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.
-- Lyster With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly good I thee endow.
-- Wedding Vow, Book of Common Prayer Ventspils Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
-- Oscar Wilde A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin Ventspils
Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the
slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional
convi We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person
perfectly.
-- Anonymous "I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) Ventspils "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein Ventspils
"Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s "Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
-- Walt Disney It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Mark Twain Ventspils Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
-- George Saunders - last words "Think off-center." (George Carlin) Ventspils
"Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) "... adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, quoted in his obituary, Time) I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for
half the money.
-- Arthur Godfrey A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh Ventspils If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
-- Scott Adams "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) Ventspils
"How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Go away...I'm alright.
-- H. G. Wells, dying words "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) "Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Ventspils "I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) 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 Ventspils
Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The
premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool.
-- Kelvin Throop I "It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing." (Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises) Ventspils "The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." (George Bernar I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind
woman.
-- S. T. Coleridge Ventspils
Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke "It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books--what other men do not say in whole books." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols) I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) Ventspils Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. "Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone Ventspils
Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde "Whether it is a black cat or a white cat, as long as it can catch the rat, it is a good cat." (Deng Xiao Ping) "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry Ventspils "I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats." (Woody Allen, in regard to the KKK) I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they
study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.
-- Gerald Early, writer, baseball do The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Ventspils
