We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi "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 That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
- Buckminster You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-- Richard Bach Oswiecim "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) "Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) 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 Oswiecim
Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and
blows up the bonfire.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Oswiecim Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken "Whether it is a black cat or a white cat, as long as it can catch the rat, it is a good cat." (Deng Xiao Ping) "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) Oswiecim
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford "The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi "Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details." (Andy Warhol, America, 1985) If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
-- Lily Tomlin There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Oswiecim "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen Oswiecim
Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country
could do under first-class management.
-- Senator Soaper You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) "Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the
time by watching the second hand of a clock.
-- Ben Hecht Oswiecim None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really
lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.
-- Herman Melville Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc
jockey is not allowed to talk.
-- Fran Lebowitz They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
-- Anonymous Oswiecim
There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the
outward behavior.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
-- Ambrose Bierce It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers Oswiecim Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood "God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) Oswiecim
Health food makes me sick.
-- Calvin Trillin "We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having
passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it.
-- Anonymous He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine; as he
who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me.
-- Thomas Jefferson What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat
guy in the third row exists?
-- Woody Allen Oswiecim It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law "To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) Oswiecim
Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin blah "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
-- Hermione Gingold Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford Oswiecim "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein Oswiecim
Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead "When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wro "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke Oswiecim She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde Oswiecim
The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
-- G. K. Chesterton If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
-- Martin Mull Oswiecim "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is
when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.
-- Marcel Achard Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld Oswiecim
Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-- Stephen Covey No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac Oswiecim "People drag their progeny around with them like a ball and chain, like some terrible deadweight that hinders their every move - and that, as often as not, effectively winds up killing them." (Michel I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses Oswiecim
A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted
by a little physical antipathy.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
-- Woody Allen What's new? Most of my wife. "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) Oswiecim The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to
criticize others.
-- H. Jackson Brown "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) Oswiecim
