I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland Nowy Targ "The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being
gummed by a newt. It doesn't actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle.
-- Molly Ivins Nowy Targ
I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the
advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first.
-- Benjamin Franklin "The feminists used to say that chivalry and ladyhood were ways of keeping women down and preventing them from standing toe to toe with the guys. Now you've got a lot of women saying that if a guy is If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
- George Bernard Shaw People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only
make $500,000.
-- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. Nowy Targ If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. Nowy Targ
There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright Guys are lucky because they get to grow mustaches. I wish I could. It's like having a little pet for
your face.
-- Anita Wise May you never leave your marriage alive. The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry Nowy Targ "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only
make $500,000.
-- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait Nowy Targ
"I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family.
-- Navaho saying "Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra Nowy Targ "Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of
genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Nowy Targ
Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
- Bill Hirst A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
-- Joseph Addison "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) Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words Nowy Targ Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire I worship the quicksand he walks in.
- Art Buchwald Nowy Targ
The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you
will become a philosopher.
-- Socrates Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder Nowy Targ Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins Nowy Targ
Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it
doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever
sea If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards 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 Nowy Targ Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
-- Oscar Wilde We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
-- Woodrow Wyatt There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at
heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels,
upon the lev Nowy Targ
Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig
deep into the actual and get something out of that - this doubtless is the right way to live.
-- H Nowy Targ Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
freedom.
-- Albert Einstein Nowy Targ
"I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats." (Woody Allen, in regard to the KKK) "I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats." (Woody Allen, in regard to the KKK) "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "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) Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats Nowy Targ Remember your dreams.
-- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
-- Albert Einstein Nowy Targ
The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
- Lucille S. Harper Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins "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 "The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple Nowy Targ Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington ...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon Nowy Targ
It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
-- Alphonse Allais [You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper "Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) Nowy Targ What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
-- Woody Allen Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with
the powerful, not to be neutral.
-- Paulo Freire When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
legislators.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Nowy Targ
