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blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle "It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) Ungheni "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
-- Indigo Girls, song lyric "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Ungheni
"Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all
over it and put your name at the top.
-- English Professor, Ohio University Ungheni "Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to
contact us.
-- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes Ungheni
Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is
merely a good excuse not to play football.
-- Fran Lebowitz Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley Ungheni I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I
believed in liberals...
-- G. K. Chesterton "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) "The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Ungheni
Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage
he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it.
-- Anon. Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey Ungheni When you're away, I'm restless, lonely
Wretched, bored, dejected; only
here's the rub, my darling dear,
I feel the same when you are here.
-- Samuel Hoffenstein I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes
in search of martyrdom is that the former expresses his idea most fully in death while the latter
really Ungheni
If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford Ungheni It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
definition, is unassailable.
-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Ungheni
It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept
me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't
everythin The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student Ungheni "Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard Ungheni
Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.... This is an ex-parrot.
-- John Cleese, Monty Python, British comedy television show Ungheni No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese "The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the
commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete
answer. In fact, women's total ins Ungheni
Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off
his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night.
-- Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley O You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's
arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
-- Jonathan Carroll, Outside "Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) "Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) Ungheni Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without
feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex,
the ugl Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
--Loesje "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 Ungheni
"To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Ungheni Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley "Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss." (Hal Holbrook, Wallstreet) "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 Ungheni
I do not see the EEC as a great love affair. It is more like nine desperate middle-ages couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope. -- Tynan We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
-- Isaac B. Singer Well, I think that it's a- it's had some difficult times but I think we have- we, I think, have been able
to make some very good progress and it's- I would say that it's- it's- it's delightful that w Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain Ungheni English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack Ungheni
A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are.
-- Gore Vidal The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell "Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
- Robert Frost "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) Ungheni The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce "Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Ungheni
