"Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. "Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." (Gertrude Stein) No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost Kristiansand "Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours." (Dale 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 This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. Kristiansand
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 Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!
-- Dr. Strangelove Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork
picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
-- Tom Stoppard "It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing." (Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises) When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Kristiansand "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) "To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) I still live.
-- Daniel Webster, dying words Kristiansand
When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall
looking frantic.
-- Steven Wright "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already
were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius Kristiansand I just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for
love is measured by fullness, not by reception.
-- Harold Loukes Kristiansand
"Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) "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) Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. Kristiansand The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-- Gilda Radner Kristiansand
Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
-- Rita Rudner A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken 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 What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine Kristiansand Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. Kristiansand
"When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning
there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have
people all Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
-- Chekhov Kristiansand "Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain "The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." (George Bernar "In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Kristiansand
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 have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone "Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol 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 Kristiansand 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 We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill Kristiansand
Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf Honor lies in honest toil.
-- Grover Cleveland I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup 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 Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure Kristiansand "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco "Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) Kristiansand
"The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "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 I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment.
-- Voltaire Kristiansand To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran Kristiansand
"If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way
of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi Kristiansand "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow Kristiansand
Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is
thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.
-- Henry Wadsworth Lo 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 blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are
certain, they do not refer to reality.
-- Albert Einstein Kristiansand I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain "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) Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart Kristiansand
