What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman 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 Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
- Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Birzebbuga Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
toys?
-- Douglas Coupland It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker Birzebbuga
There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health,
knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
-- Roger Babson Birzebbuga We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person
perfectly.
-- Anonymous Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas
doctors rob you and kill you too.
-- Anton Chekhov 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 Birzebbuga
"I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear ... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived." (Rabbi H "Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) Marriage is a rest period between romances. It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are
romantic dreamers and actually believe that estrogenic skin cream must do something or they
couldn't cha There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
-- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 Birzebbuga The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing.
Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
-- Oscar Wilde No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health,
knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
-- Roger Babson Birzebbuga
Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way
to bet.
-- Damon Runyan Birzebbuga Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
-- Phillip Brooks "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett Birzebbuga
Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
-- Robert Browning If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois Birzebbuga Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
him.
-- Rich Little A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald Birzebbuga
Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway.
-- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
-- Anonymous Birzebbuga The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
-- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley Birzebbuga
"The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
-- Albert Einstein In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that
no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
-- Paul Dirac Birzebbuga If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
-- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
-- Indigo Girls, song lyric "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) Birzebbuga
Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door
and just visit now and then.
-- Katharine Hepburn Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens Birzebbuga When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the
first half.
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are
romantic dreamers and actually believe that estrogenic skin cream must do something or they
couldn't cha Birzebbuga
"Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) "When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back.
-- Henny Youngman "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) "There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips." (Elsa Lanchester) Birzebbuga In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson
articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are
apparently based Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
-- Anonymous Birzebbuga
A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the
second, "For my best friend."
-- Anonymous "To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman Birzebbuga We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
-- Beaumont, Francis Birzebbuga
"The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) 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 Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically,
ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion.
-- Fred Rogers, parody of "Row, row, row your boa The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone Birzebbuga The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would
be able to endure it.
-- Schopenhauer Birzebbuga
