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Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
automobile.
-- Billy Sunday A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would
be able to endure it.
-- Schopenhauer I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all
the time. That would be hypocrisy.
-- Oscar Wilde Lodz We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde Lodz
"Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you
don't know. He knows now that he doesn't know. Last year, he didn't know that.
-- Bill Parcels, New Engla If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have
to shave twice a day.
-- Adlai Stevenson Lodz All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen
closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping.
-- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass
produced with unskilled labor.
-- Wernher von Braun Lodz
"This is the first age that's paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one." (Arthur C. Clarke) "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
bad ones.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Lodz I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White 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 I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" Lodz
A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavours to live the life which
one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
-- Henry David Thoreau I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
wastes to Third Wo "The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln Lodz "The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is n Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) Lodz
Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James Lodz I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp Lodz
The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) Lodz Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!
-- Dr. Strangelove Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde Lodz
Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
-- Herbert Westren Turnbull A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
-- Buke Ellington 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 Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Lodz Correction: Instead of being arrested, as we stated, for kicking his wife down a flight of stairs and hurling a lighted kerosene lamp after her, the Rev. James P. Wellman died unmarried four years ago Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. 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 Lodz
Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
-- H. L. Mencken In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
-- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 Lodz True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard Lodz
The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin Lodz Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing
matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.
-- Amy Bloom "There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom Lodz
Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
-- Carl Zwanzig Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous Lodz I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
-- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin Lodz
When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
the workmanship.
-- John Renmerde Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) Lodz Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
-- Red Buttons Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils Lodz
