Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
-- Anonymous I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President 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 I didn't accept it. I received it.
-- Richard Allen, National Security Advisor to President Reagan, explaining the $1000 in cash and
two watches he was given by two Japanese journalists after he hel Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James Malta Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
-- Robert Benchley Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer Malta
Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) "We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante Malta "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) Malta
Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
-- Lily Tomlin Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud "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 Malta A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family.
-- Navaho saying I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown Malta
Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-- Stephen Covey The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it.
And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.
-- George Bus Malta "We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses 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 Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams Malta
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 To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig
deep into the actual and get something out of that - this doubtless is the right way to live.
-- H "Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours." (Dale "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin Malta Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the
calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
-- Mark Twain 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 Malta
"If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not
know what to create.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little
plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.
-- Ha I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos Malta Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first
comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom Malta
I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
-- Elvis Presley I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What
do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came
back with ano Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary
to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.'
-- Bierce, A Malta 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 Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
-- George Clemenceau Malta
Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw "One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price. I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines
staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you
ask th Malta "Every now and then say, 'What the fu(c)k.' 'What the fu(c)k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future." (Curtis Armstrong, Risky Business, 1983) "Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke
or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
-- Charles Brower Malta
There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus "People drag their progeny around with them like a ball and chain, like some terrible deadweight that hinders their every move - and that, as often as not, effectively winds up killing them." (Michel No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) Malta "People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult." (Anne An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
-- Robert A. Humphrey The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley Malta
"I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.
-- Mark Twain I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln Malta Not to anticipate is already to moan.
-- Leonardo da Vinci There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be
paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's
life "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) Malta
Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood "There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana Malta You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words
that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
-- Alexander Pope The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism. --Heidi Hartmann [The Unhappy Malta
