A Lawyer's History of Malta - Provides a lawyer's perspective of the history of the islands, describing the conditions of the Maltese people throughout the ages.
Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
neighborhood.
-- Maya Angelou One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
reputation.
-- Oscar Wilde There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's
age.
-- Modern Maturity Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell History I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how
to make it interesting.
-- Milton Berle, when called to the microphone at the 2nd Annual Comedians Hal Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous History
The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
- Karl Wallenda Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large
organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.
-- Dave Barry A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor All television is children's television.
-- Richard P. Adler History I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
-- Woodrow Wyatt 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 History
The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) History We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb History
I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis "Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something.
-- Seymour Papert History In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler "Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President History
I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
neighborhood.
-- Maya Angelou "Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous History They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
-- Anonymous "Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any compliment and limit, but only o Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde History
The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I
was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper.
-- Smith & Jones If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali History If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it.
-- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes History
Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) "People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) History Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown History
"If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
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-- Directions on moist towelette package "Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce History My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
-- Samuel Johnson People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet History
"Friends are those people who know the words to the song in your heart and sing them back to you when you have forgotten the words." (Anonymous) "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) 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 Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own
language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other
friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things:
and in that History The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things!
-- Tom Lehrer History
The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
-- Woodrow Wyatt I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to
me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
-- Lucille Ball History I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
-- James McNeill Whistler History
Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.
- Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep
up with software demands Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle History The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson "Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) History
