If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
-- James McNeill Whistler I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had
never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
-- Orison Swett Marden 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 "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Mogilno "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Boies Penrose, 1931 Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President Mogilno
"I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower."
"Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!"
-- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu "The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) Mogilno Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous "One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away,
the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. Mogilno
"The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
-- Brian Pickrell A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The
rest is trust.
-- Nanette Newman, British actress Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
a fortune Mogilno There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises,
promotions, and other signs of appreciation.
-- Anonymous As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln Mogilno
University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that.
-- Shakespeare, William "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde Mogilno I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) Mogilno
"Drugs have done a lot of good. A lot of good songs have been written. 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. 'Dark Side of the Moon?' 100 dead kids. At least that many were conceived by people listening Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and
tomorrow aint as bad as it seems.
-- Billy Joel Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright We are the echo of the future.
-- W. S. Merwin In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. Mogilno "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) "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) 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 Mogilno
We are the echo of the future.
-- W. S. Merwin A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good
results: drag behind car through puddles, blow-dry on roofrack.
-- Laundry instructions on a shirt A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. Mogilno "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) "In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Mogilno
Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson Mogilno A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He
experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of
optic America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx Mogilno
"The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
-- Antonio Porchi "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald 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 Mogilno Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham We look forward to the time when the power to love of will replace the love of power. Then will our
world know the blessings of peace.
-- William Gladstone They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to
get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
-- Billie Holliday Mogilno
Facts are the enemy of truth.
- Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
is.
-- Arnold Bennett The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." Mogilno "Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) "Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly good I thee endow.
-- Wedding Vow, Book of Common Prayer Mogilno
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 The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy
together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back
on at Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family.
-- Navaho saying There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
-- Albert Einstein Mogilno I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery Mogilno
Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain "Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein Mogilno "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does
not change his mind.
-- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) Mogilno
