Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the
source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity,
ign Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
-- Publilius Syrus We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig Lwowek Slaski I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
-- Shane Leslie Lwowek Slaski
"Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wit It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde "Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it." (Colin Powell) Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce "It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing." (Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises) Lwowek Slaski "One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Lwowek Slaski
"Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and
quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that
remains fa "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. Lwowek Slaski "I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free." (Walker Percy, The Moviegoer) There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has
come.
-- Victor Hugo If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
bureaucracy won't.
-- Hyman Rickover Lwowek Slaski
"If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." (Albert Einstein) Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
-- Colin Wilson "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) Lwowek Slaski It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not
allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating,
stealing, "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) Lwowek Slaski
We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your
way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition -- plowing straight ahead, come what
may The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness
are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser
tha Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own
language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz Lwowek Slaski Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley Lwowek Slaski
"Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god." (Jean Rostand) Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde Lwowek Slaski Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc
jockey is not allowed to talk.
-- Fran Lebowitz "Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
-- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 Lwowek Slaski
You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra "If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.
-- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his
campaign pledge that there would be "The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." (Albert Camus) Lwowek Slaski I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances
continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the
distance Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the
consequences.
-- Isadora Duncan Lwowek Slaski
If you never want to see a man again, say, "I love you, I want to marry you, I want to have children..." - they leave skid marks. -- Rita Rudner Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a
holding pattern over Philadelphia.
-- Judith Viorst "Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-- Abraham Lincoln Lwowek Slaski There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) Lwowek Slaski
Just buy a box of popcorn and a Coca-Cola and sit back and watch.
-- James Carville, Clinton advisor, offering advice for Democrats on the term-limits vote in the
House Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw Establishing yourself, furnishing a house, building up a comfortable existence, and having that menace hanging over your head all the time - no, I prefer to live in hotels, cafés, just passing through "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house
as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
-- Homer, Odyssey, ninth century Lwowek Slaski Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-- Bill Stern We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us.
-- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius Lwowek Slaski
The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing
changes and yet everything is completely different.
-- Aldous Huxley Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
-- Albert Einstein I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words 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 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 Lwowek Slaski "Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-- ee cummings Lwowek Slaski
"You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West Lwowek Slaski Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
-- Lord Dewar Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't
take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates...
-- Anonymous Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.
-- King George V Lwowek Slaski