Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
-- Satchel Paige I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
and bought jewelry.
-- Rita Rudner Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Borge Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to
us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
-- Jeff Raskin your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. Biala Podlaska "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning Biala Podlaska
"There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) 2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time.
-- inside of a Pepsi cap The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain Biala Podlaska The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
bad ones.
-- W. Somerset Maugham What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crowf By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
a fortune Biala Podlaska
Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry Biala Podlaska "The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
-- Nathan Hale Biala Podlaska
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain 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 "Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
-- Robert Benchley "And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to Biala Podlaska In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Biala Podlaska
The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
-- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three
children and no theories.
-- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester "Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Biala Podlaska Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James Biala Podlaska
Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist "Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle Biala Podlaska Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of
humor is just common sense, dancing.
-- Clive James I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't
certain we knew better.
-- George Bird Evans Biala Podlaska
Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves
great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates
the We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) Biala Podlaska "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones
you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in
your Biala Podlaska
There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-- Samuel Butler If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw Biala Podlaska Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person that loves you
enough chance to love you enough.
-- Dinah Shore Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Steven Wright If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
-- Elbert Hubbard Biala Podlaska
"Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) Biala Podlaska Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
-- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good "The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) "Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) Biala Podlaska
A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry "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) "Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW Biala Podlaska Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) We must become the change we want to see.
-- Gandhi Biala Podlaska
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 "Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu ...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism. --Heidi Hartmann [The Unhappy Biala Podlaska 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 Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how
to make it interesting.
-- Milton Berle, when called to the microphone at the 2nd Annual Comedians Hal Biala Podlaska
