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If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
-- Helen Keller The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same
joke and still feel lonely.
-- T. S. Eliot Lithuania 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) A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) "Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) Lithuania
A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) Lithuania "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Golf is a good walk spoiled.
-- Mark Twain We are the echo of the future.
-- W. S. Merwin Lithuania
It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things.
-- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" Lithuania History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had
never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
-- Orison Swett Marden "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Lithuania
"Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details." (Andy Warhol, America, 1985) Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun "... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper Lithuania Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique
added to the armamentarium of political inquiry. Anyone who cannot negotiate Chi squares,
assess randomi The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does
not stop until you get into the office.
-- Robert Frost We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx Lithuania
"When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wro This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the
really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
-- Mark Twain Lithuania Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
reputation.
-- Oscar Wilde He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
-- J. Heller Lithuania
Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to
criticize others.
-- H. Jackson Brown The man with the best job in the country is the Vice President. All he has to do is get up every
morning and say, "How's the President?"
-- Will Rogers "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada Lithuania When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his
life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.
-- Francois Cavanna A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting Lithuania
Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday
afternoon.
-- Susan Ertz The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
bad ones.
-- W. Somerset Maugham All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde "The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only th Lithuania I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like
a black mistake.
-- D. H. Lawrence Lithuania
"The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway Lithuania "Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld Lithuania
Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the
time by watching the second hand of a clock.
-- Ben Hecht The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker Lithuania A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries Lithuania
The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero 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 Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we
respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
-- H. L. Mencken Lithuania Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) Lithuania
To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing
popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.
-- Dave Barry Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Lithuania A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor Lithuania
