Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
-- George Saunders - last words If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too.
When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing
extraordinary Aalsmeer He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their
powers as a State depend.
-- Benjamin Disraeli 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 Aalsmeer
"I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats." (Woody Allen, in regard to the KKK) "A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
-- Albert Einstein "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Aalsmeer There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house
as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
-- Homer, Odyssey, ninth century Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
-- Robert Browning I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
- Cicero Aalsmeer
Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness
are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser
tha Guide to understanding a net.addict's day:
Slow day: didn't have much to do, so spent three hours on usenet.
Busy day: managed to work in three hours of usenet.
Bad day: barely squeezed in three ho Aalsmeer Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) "I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) Aalsmeer
Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner "The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only th If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be
closed for any other business.
-- Abraham Lincoln Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford Aalsmeer Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that
can be shot when it breaks down.
-- Russell Baker In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Aalsmeer
"Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung "A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." (Fred Allen) It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
-- Mae West Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton Aalsmeer Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal Aalsmeer
If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
-- Albert Einstein "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll Aalsmeer "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi "I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou Aalsmeer
"I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind
and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the
coachin If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon Aalsmeer 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 The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) Aalsmeer
I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
can't read.
-- Frank Zappa "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Aalsmeer If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the
faculty of laughter.
-- Joseph Addison Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra Aalsmeer
The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) "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 A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson Aalsmeer "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin Aalsmeer
Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
- Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
-- James McNeill Whistler I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.
-- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) Aalsmeer Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde "All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) Aalsmeer
Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the
outward behavior.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) Aalsmeer In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield Aalsmeer
