You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his
cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that
Uncl Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous Balti "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
chastisement.
-- Ernest Dimnet "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Balti
Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing. It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca Balti Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and
hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in
Heaven.
-- P. J "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy Balti
Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your
thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be.
-- Richard Mitchell, from All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery
increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control
futur "This is the first age that's paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one." (Arthur C. Clarke) Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
-- John Adams, dying words Balti No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) "Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
-- Elvis Presley Balti
Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
existence.
-- Sydney Smith Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
-- Martin Mull Balti "Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
-- Robert Orben Balti
"Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.
-- Mark Twain "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper Balti Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-- Anonymous "There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered." (Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom) Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
-- Rita Rudner Balti
"Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Man is a natural polygamist. He always has one woman leading him by the nose and another
hanging on to his coattails.
-- H. L. Mencken 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 Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen Balti "God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Balti
When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender "It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing." (Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises) "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, Alice in Wonderland People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet "Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Balti 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 I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf Balti
We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had
never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
-- Orison Swett Marden Balti Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.
-- American Proverb Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus Balti
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun "To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on
a date.
-- Caroline Rhea Balti "The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) "This is the first age that's paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one." (Arthur C. Clarke) Balti
We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his
life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.
-- Francois Cavanna Balti A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no
religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear
of blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV Balti
We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't
natural.
-- Bob Beckel, on term limits, CBS This Morning, 3/30/95 "I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) Balti "A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) "A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) "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) Balti
