When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 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 Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
-- Charles Pierce "If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is
something everybody believes, except the person who made it.
-- Albert Einstein, attributed Klaipeda The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde Klaipeda
It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.
-- Tom Robbins University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger "Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
can't read.
-- Frank Zappa One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: "Give little, give seldom, and above all,
give grudgingly." Otherwise, what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of
sexual Klaipeda Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
-- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting
married "The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous Klaipeda
blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra) Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and
joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not
as Klaipeda "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw Klaipeda
To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it;
whenever you're right, shut up.
-- Ogden Nash "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin "Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of g Klaipeda The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) Klaipeda
If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the
faculty of laughter.
-- Joseph Addison A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any
antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
-- Alfred Hitchcock If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn 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 Klaipeda Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more
experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat
soiled or torn? I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
-- Phillip Brooks Klaipeda
Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill The child is the father of the man.
-- William Wordsworth You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Klaipeda I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet In the end, everything is a gag.
- Charlie Chaplin Klaipeda
Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those
little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana Klaipeda Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with
the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
-- Cynthia Heimel Man and wife make one fool. Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
- Paul Erdos Klaipeda
blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa "The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. Klaipeda 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 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 Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun Klaipeda
If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. "The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. Klaipeda "Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain Just buy a box of popcorn and a Coca-Cola and sit back and watch.
-- James Carville, Clinton advisor, offering advice for Democrats on the term-limits vote in the
House "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) Klaipeda
"The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) "No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." (Henry B. Adams) Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
-- John Adams, dying words The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Klaipeda In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops
were side by side in the Italian village of Cremona. First were the Amatis, and outside their shop
hung It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
-- Vince Lombardi "The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Klaipeda
Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Borge There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from
both sides.
-- Margaret Thatcher Golf is a good walk spoiled.
-- Mark Twain A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb Klaipeda True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived
in this century. I didn't live in this century.
-- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and
joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not
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