Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
-- Hermione Gingold Ladek Zdroj In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves
beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
-- Al Rogers, Global SchoolHouse Netw The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) 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 Ladek Zdroj
The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. Ladek Zdroj Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) Ladek Zdroj
I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.
-- Barbara Bush, first lady, 1989 Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they
oppose it.
-- Sigmund Freud A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off
his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night.
-- Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley O Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock Ladek Zdroj If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of
something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than
cocaine.
"We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin Ladek Zdroj
Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
-- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Ladek Zdroj Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker Ladek Zdroj
Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
-- Ray Bandy "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-- Stephen Covey A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Ladek Zdroj Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Ladek Zdroj
For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 Ladek Zdroj It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not
mean his maker, but himself.
-- Dean Inge The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore
exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.
-- Slavoj Zizek Ladek Zdroj
It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
-- Vince Lombardi 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 Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
ages as much as 20 years.
-- Anonymous And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler Ladek Zdroj I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
-- Mother Teresa I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me
is another matter.
- Sir Winston Churchill For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken Ladek Zdroj
"Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) "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) You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY "Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." (Dave Barry) Ladek Zdroj Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
-- Anonymous I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. Ladek Zdroj
Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing.
Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
-- Oscar Wilde Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.
- Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep
up with software demands A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana Ladek Zdroj "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
-- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
-- James McNeill Whistler Ladek Zdroj
Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation.
-- Latin Proverb Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) Ladek Zdroj "To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) "God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) Ladek Zdroj
Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim
to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire.
-- Gen. George A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
-- Buke Ellington Ladek Zdroj "Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree
to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full
of grac Ladek Zdroj
