Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin Palanga Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness
are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser
tha It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.
-- Tom Robbins We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël Palanga
Every flower must grow through dirt.
-- Anonymous An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West Palanga Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon Palanga
In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not
allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating,
stealing, A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire "I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely
pleased to announce the appointment of David Steele to the post.
-- Philip Streifer, Superintendent "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Palanga You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-- Richard Bach Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) Palanga
You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
-- George Santayana blah blah blah blah blah "This is the way the world ends: not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot) _end]
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-- Gail Godwin Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. Palanga Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
- Karl Wallenda "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles Palanga
I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards Palanga Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
-- Maya Angelou If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man
will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
-- Henry Ford Palanga
There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
-- Libbie Fudim "I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos--especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom ... Rather than starting inside, I start ou Palanga "'Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!'" (Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass) If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) Palanga
"It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows
how to make us disobedient.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) Palanga Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware;
those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software.
-- Unknown author, Levitating T Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell Palanga
History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill 2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time.
-- inside of a Pepsi cap blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard Palanga Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim
to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire.
-- Gen. George "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold Palanga
It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers "Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we
can do... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes.
-- Cybi Palanga The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken "I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer Palanga
Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." "I think people resist freedom because they're afraid of the unknown. But it's ironic....That unknown was once very well known. It's where are souls belong....The only solution is to confront them--co "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) Palanga "Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wit 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 "Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) Palanga
"Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
-- Tom Robbins "To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) Palanga Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
-- Helen Keller Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks Palanga
