Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
-- Niels Bohr We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we
can do... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes.
-- Cybi Polanica-Zdroj "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
-- Tom Robbins In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson
articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are
apparently based Polanica-Zdroj
People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
-- Satchel Paige "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "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) It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde Polanica-Zdroj If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already
were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above
weakness Polanica-Zdroj
The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Polanica-Zdroj "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry
that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
-- Dale Carnegie Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen Polanica-Zdroj
Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain
as marijuana...The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two, but can't
remember what "For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) Silence is argument carried out by other means.
- ErnestoCheGuevara Polanica-Zdroj Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett Polanica-Zdroj
The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
-- Clarence Darrow "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Polanica-Zdroj Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give. -- Cass Daley The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) "Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss." (Hal Holbrook, Wallstreet) Polanica-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 "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
-- Rory Bremner Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
-- B.F. Skinner The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Polanica-Zdroj History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill "Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution,
of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always
be Polanica-Zdroj
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 "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine; as he
who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me.
-- Thomas Jefferson Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing
popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.
-- Dave Barry Anything too stupid to be said, is sung.
-- Voltaire Polanica-Zdroj I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon Polanica-Zdroj
Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
-- Anonymous The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going
to make fun of you.
-- Woody Allen There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and
inex I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song Polanica-Zdroj Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five
isn't bad.
-- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard Polanica-Zdroj
Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and
therefore congenial to it.
-- G. K. Chesterton A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier. --H.L. Mencken Polanica-Zdroj Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
-- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn "Frank and explicit; that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others." (Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil) We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton Polanica-Zdroj
Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that
can be shot when it breaks down.
-- Russell Baker The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry Polanica-Zdroj Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when
people laugh.
-- George Bernard Shaw The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz Polanica-Zdroj
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"Hello Kitty is an icon that doesn't stand for a Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing
popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.
-- Dave Barry Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them
down people's throats.
-- Howard Aiken It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a
few grains of corn now and then."
-- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, Polanica-Zdroj I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
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