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Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it;
whenever you're right, shut up.
-- Ogden Nash The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-- ee cummings The soul is healed by being with children.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevski Stefan-Voda I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department
store and he asked for my autograph.
-- Shirley Temple Black A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that.
-- Shakespeare, William "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) Stefan-Voda
Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President 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 Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde "You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru Stefan-Voda "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) 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 The west wasn't won on salad.
-- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 Stefan-Voda
"Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crow There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics a There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a
natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three
children and no theories.
-- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester Stefan-Voda Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince "I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) "I'll endorse with my name any of the following; clothing AC-DC, cigarettes, small tapes, sound equipment, ROCK N' ROLL RECORDS, anything, film, and film equipment, Food, Helium, Whips, MONEY!!" (And Stefan-Voda
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 If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel "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) Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw Stefan-Voda The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) "Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) Stefan-Voda
A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference
between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I
don't know and 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 What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln Stefan-Voda What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be
built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
-- Anne S You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Stefan-Voda
"My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go." (Oscar Wilde, his last recorded words) The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
-- Francois-Auguste Rodin, when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara Stefan-Voda Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and
joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not
as When Baby's cries grew hard to bear I popped him in the Frigidaire. I never would have done so if
I'd known that he'd be frozen stiff. My wife said, "George, I'm so unhappy! Our darling's now
comple "Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) Stefan-Voda
Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken 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 Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein 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 Stefan-Voda No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson Stefan-Voda
Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) 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 Stefan-Voda The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee Stefan-Voda
Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.
-- Anonymous A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly good I thee endow.
-- Wedding Vow, Book of Common Prayer Stefan-Voda "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde Stefan-Voda
Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
the workmanship.
-- John Renmerde 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 Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does
come, we no longer exist.
-- Epicurus Stefan-Voda "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) "Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god." (Jean Rostand) Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you
get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a
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I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust
there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
-- Andre Norton Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
- Karl Wallenda You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By
giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you
will You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Stefan-Voda "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling Stefan-Voda