UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. "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) Krynica I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
wastes to Third Wo Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.
-- John Murray Krynica
"The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn What's new? Most of my wife. I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) Krynica Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more
experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat
soiled or torn? Krynica
"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 God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if
he finds her.
-- Benjamin Tillett Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb 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 Krynica 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 "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire Krynica
The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg Krynica I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all
the time. That would be hypocrisy.
-- Oscar Wilde To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde Krynica
Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't
have done.
-- Malcolm Forbes Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee Krynica Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea.
-- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone Krynica
I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
wastes to Third Wo Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me!
-- Henry Ford Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Steven Wright Krynica All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it
is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does
not change his mind.
-- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks Krynica
"The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on
tormenting the generations to come.
-- Montesquieu 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 Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) Krynica Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV Krynica
The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy
the waking hours much more.
-- Woody Allen Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President "The bite of conscience, like the bite of a dog into a stone, is a stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) Krynica Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the
top.
-- Ed Abbey To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of
your life.
-- Abbie M. Dale Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder Krynica
Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock "Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the
purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
-- Anatole France A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
-- Mae West Krynica In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the
second, "For my best friend."
-- Anonymous Krynica
"Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens 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 "The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) Krynica Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by
the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off!
-- Douglas Jerold, 1858 Krynica
I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. "A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." (Fred Allen) The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) Krynica You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost "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) "These are days you'll remember." If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony,
remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.
-- Christine Todd, NJ Governor, Whea Krynica
