"Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you
a hundre I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Krosno Odrzanskie Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they
are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
-- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen Krosno Odrzanskie
Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin "I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so Amer Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is
thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.
-- Henry Wadsworth Lo Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked
me in the cellar.
-- Anonymous Krosno Odrzanskie There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way
to bet.
-- Damon Runyan Krosno Odrzanskie
We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person
perfectly.
-- Anonymous If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.
-- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
-- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 Krosno Odrzanskie Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland "To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) Krosno Odrzanskie
At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in
every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Krosno Odrzanskie 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 Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite
without any wish to act.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Krosno Odrzanskie
"The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be
closed for any other business.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected..." (Chuck Jones) Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw Krosno Odrzanskie If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
-- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making Krosno Odrzanskie
Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin "My daughter has never forgiven me. for what, I don't know, because for years, she won't speak to me. She blackens my name in the press and makes me think abortion is an excellent idea." (Klaus Kinsk Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put
over my kitchen table.
-- Rodney Dangerfield Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one.
-- Oscar Levant, to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee Krosno Odrzanskie "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings Krosno Odrzanskie
"Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') "Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s "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) Krosno Odrzanskie Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
legislators.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Krosno Odrzanskie
If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
-- Albert Einstein Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) Krosno Odrzanskie What's new? Most of my wife. Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea.
-- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone "One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Krosno Odrzanskie
A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes "Every now and then say, 'What the fu(c)k.' 'What the fu(c)k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future." (Curtis Armstrong, Risky Business, 1983) There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais Krosno Odrzanskie "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
-- Alphonse Allais We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we
respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
-- H. L. Mencken Krosno Odrzanskie
Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
-- Rory Bremner "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in
opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
-- Sydney Smith Krosno Odrzanskie The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.
-- R. Scott Richards Krosno Odrzanskie
Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the
opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
-- Oscar W We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Krosno Odrzanskie "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) I'll sleep when I'm dead.
- Warren Zevon Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger Krosno Odrzanskie
