"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) To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
-- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Steven Wright "The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) Norway "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby
see only a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney and continue on their way.
-- Vincent Van Gogh The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
is.
-- Arnold Bennett Norway
Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through
self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
-- Helen Keller In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde "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 Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing
popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.
-- Dave Barry Norway Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz "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 run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Norway
"This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-
inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least
expect i He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop Norway I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those
little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to
do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did.
-- Anonymous If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
-- Elbert Hubbard Norway
It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
-- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-- Anonymous It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Steven Wright Norway Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous "I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free." (Walker Percy, The Moviegoer) The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does
not stop until you get into the office.
-- Robert Frost Norway
"Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley 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 Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health,
knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
-- Roger Babson If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-- Samuel Butler Norway There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never
were, and ask why not?
-- Robert Francis Kennedy I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they
study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.
-- Gerald Early, writer, baseball do Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor Norway
Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck >From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea--written in red on every
beachhead form Australia to Tokyo--There is no substitute for victory!
-- General Douglas MacArthur Norway "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) My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician 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 Norway
If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
-- Chekhov What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up
our minds to walk boldly through them.
-- Orison Swett Marden Norway Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
- James Stephens More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words Norway
I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call
me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
-- Rebecca West, Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Anonymous It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince Norway For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks Norway
May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. "Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin Norway What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of
responsibility at the other.
-- Ronald Reagan, Saturday Evening Post, 1965 Norway
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 When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti 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 Norway Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Norway
Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. "The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy.
-- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would
be doing if he were alive today?
1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War.
2) Advising the President.
3) D Norway You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
-- Stanislaw J. Lem As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken Norway
