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"Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) 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 Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne Soroca A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a
minute, it's longer than any hour. That is relativity.
-- Albert Einstein "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. Soroca
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the
table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the
disg "I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real senten Silence is argument carried out by other means.
- ErnestoCheGuevara Soroca Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if
he finds her.
-- Benjamin Tillett I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Indeed, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all.
-- Ogden Nash, Song of the Open Road, 1945 Soroca
"When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) The telephone company is urging people to *please* not use the telephone unless it is absolutely
necessary in order to keep the lines open for emergency personnel. We'll be right back after this
bre Soroca Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
-- M. Hirschfield "Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) Soroca
Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
freedom.
-- Albert Einstein If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
-- Albert Einstein Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
-- Elvis Presley Soroca If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give. -- Cass Daley "One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Soroca
If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.
-- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi Soroca They were doing a full back shot of me in a swimsuit and I thought, Oh my God, I have to be so
brave. See, every woman hates herself from behind.
-- Cindy Crawford, supermodel Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington Soroca
As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are
certain, they do not refer to reality.
-- Albert Einstein And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius Soroca "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
-- Mother Teresa Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins Soroca
"If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair." (Samuel Johnson) "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
-- Woody Allen I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement
speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have
th Soroca "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
-- Polish proverb Soroca
In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. 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 A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West "Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of g If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils Soroca There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard Soroca
Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in
accordance with the dictates of reason.
-- Oscar Wilde I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli 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 Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
-- Anonymous "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) Soroca 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 "I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) Soroca
"Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of
mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
-- Rita Mae Brown Soroca If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset "A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) Soroca
Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a
thing to be acheived.
-- William Jennings Bryant The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo 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. Soroca If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink Soroca
