The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" "If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison "It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books--what other men do not say in whole books." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols) Walbrzych I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison "Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 Walbrzych
Go away...I'm alright.
-- H. G. Wells, dying words Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken "What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature." (Francois Marie Ar Per cubic inch, your current TV set is perhaps the dumbest appliance in your home (and I'm not
even talking about the programs).
-- Nicholas Negroponte The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford Walbrzych "There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips." (Elsa Lanchester) Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt Walbrzych
"In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
-- Albert Einstein A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be
sacrificed to expediency.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Walbrzych "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of
pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.
-- Lyster Walbrzych
The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown Icky icky icky icky fKANG zoop-boing n zowzyin...
-- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx Walbrzych Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger Walbrzych
"We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) Spinster: A bachelor's wife. Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine "There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips." (Elsa Lanchester) "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) Walbrzych Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. In the end, everything is a gag.
- Charlie Chaplin Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-- Ambrose Bierce Walbrzych
"That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good
marriage
-- Martin Luther "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary
to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.'
-- Bierce, A Walbrzych The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other
is ready.
-- Henry David Thoreau "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) Walbrzych
"The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Walbrzych Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
pure ignorance?
-- Holbrook Jackson Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in
a car he sticks his head out the window.
-- Steve Bluestone Walbrzych
If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford Walbrzych Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers Walbrzych
Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) Walbrzych "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) "The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only th Walbrzych
"Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright "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) I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. Walbrzych I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Walbrzych
Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other
friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things:
and in that Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde 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 What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) Walbrzych The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject,
when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron
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