To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
-- James McNeill Whistler The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings "We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind
woman.
-- S. T. Coleridge Hoofddorp Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) Hoofddorp
Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain "Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Hoofddorp I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What
do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came
back with ano Hoofddorp
Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
-- Winston Churchill "Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Hoofddorp The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and
blows up the bonfire.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Hoofddorp
Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker
room is the temple where they worship arrested development.
-- Russell Baker Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
what you are getting.
-- Anonymous Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik "Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers Hoofddorp The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Hoofddorp
"I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) 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 Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper "You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) Hoofddorp Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the
second, "For my best friend."
-- Anonymous "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford Hoofddorp
Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
-- Stanislaw J. Lem 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. "Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) Hoofddorp Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet
enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein Hoofddorp
Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H.L. Mencken 2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time.
-- inside of a Pepsi cap Hoofddorp "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't
take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates...
-- Anonymous It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw Hoofddorp
"... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's
being off the network.
-- Guy Almes In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the
next meal would come from.
-- Peter F. Drucker A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
-- Sidney Goff "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 Hoofddorp The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing.
Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
-- Oscar Wilde A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon Hoofddorp
There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you
can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist.
-- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
-- Isaac B. Singer Hoofddorp "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) "When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." (Friedrich Wilhelm Ni Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn Hoofddorp
Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain 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 Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker
room is the temple where they worship arrested development.
-- Russell Baker Hoofddorp Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley Hoofddorp
"Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the
source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity,
ign I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject,
when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron
scumbags dev Hoofddorp You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc
jockey is not allowed to talk.
-- Fran Lebowitz Hoofddorp
