The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words He who laughs last didn't get it.
-- Helen Giangregorio "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) "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) Katyn Forest Massacre Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes
your wife.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Katyn Forest Massacre
"Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward Katyn Forest Massacre Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words Katyn Forest Massacre
A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra Golf is a good walk spoiled.
-- Mark Twain I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
- Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable
statues Katyn Forest Massacre Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not,
the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms
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"To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) Guys are lucky because they get to grow mustaches. I wish I could. It's like having a little pet for
your face.
-- Anita Wise "Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) Per cubic inch, your current TV set is perhaps the dumbest appliance in your home (and I'm not
even talking about the programs).
-- Nicholas Negroponte My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett Katyn Forest Massacre When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton "Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor Katyn Forest Massacre
No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
- William Jennings Bryan "Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham "I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w 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 Katyn Forest Massacre There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
imagination.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
-- Elbert Hubbard A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no
religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear
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There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle
enough of them.
-- Flannery O'Connor I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker Katyn Forest Massacre "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. Katyn Forest Massacre
True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau Facts are the enemy of truth.
- Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire "There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) Katyn Forest Massacre Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them
down people's throats.
-- Howard Aiken The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) Katyn Forest Massacre
Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower Katyn Forest Massacre The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One
cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the
marvelous str A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with
the powerful, not to be neutral.
-- Paulo Freire Katyn Forest Massacre
Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem
mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's
chara When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being
brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
-- Cynthia H "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain Katyn Forest Massacre We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
-- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Katyn Forest Massacre
Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of
genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a
brand new ending.
-- Anonymous Katyn Forest Massacre If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a
minute, it's longer than any hour. That is relativity.
-- Albert Einstein I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen Katyn Forest Massacre
Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in
accordance with the dictates of reason.
-- Oscar Wilde "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does
come, we no longer exist.
-- Epicurus Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) Katyn Forest Massacre In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson "Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
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