When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find
that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our
pain Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
-- Hermione Gingold Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
-- Carl Zwanzig It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
-- Emiliano Zapata To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert Aleksandow Lodzki Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) >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 Aleksandow Lodzki
"The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the
unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is
also the m "I've never let my school interfere with my education." (Mark Twain) Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason Aleksandow Lodzki Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
-- Arthur C. Coxe "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway Aleksandow Lodzki
My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who
take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
-- INDIRA If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
-- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act i. Sc. 1. When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find
that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our
pain Aleksandow Lodzki The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton Aleksandow Lodzki
When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't
have done.
-- Malcolm Forbes 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 What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it
is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer "I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always send them a plant to wish them well. Of course, it's a cactus." (Norman B Aleksandow Lodzki 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 Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence Aleksandow Lodzki
What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crowf Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso "The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you
together, but do so with all your heart.
-- Marcus Aurelius Aleksandow Lodzki A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with
the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
-- Cynthia Heimel Aleksandow Lodzki
Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was
doing spying.
-- Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets for spying, in an i 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 "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) Aleksandow Lodzki Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
day into your answers.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke "Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored..." (Herman Melville, History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Aleksandow Lodzki
"Think off-center." (George Carlin) If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
-- Elbert Hubbard The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous "God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward Aleksandow Lodzki Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb Aleksandow Lodzki
"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." 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) Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover 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 Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway Aleksandow Lodzki I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. we are for the most part
more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.
-- Thoreau Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde Aleksandow Lodzki
No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again.
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show Aleksandow Lodzki The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
ethical infants.
-- General Omar Bradley If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton Aleksandow Lodzki
Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you
have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.
-- Aldous Huxley "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted
by a little physical antipathy.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Aleksandow Lodzki Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
-- Helen Keller Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Aleksandow Lodzki
No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. "Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to t The more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
-- Mark Twain They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 "Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) Aleksandow Lodzki Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
-- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce "I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always send them a plant to wish them well. Of course, it's a cactus." (Norman B Aleksandow Lodzki
