There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde 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 Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim
to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire.
-- Gen. George What's new? Most of my wife. "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) Minsk Mazowiecki It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
-- Leslie Jeanne Sahler Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) Minsk Mazowiecki
The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen "To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? Minsk Mazowiecki If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti "Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) Minsk Mazowiecki
"I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) "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) Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. -- Socrates Minsk Mazowiecki The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.
-- Anonymous Minsk Mazowiecki
A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference
between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I
don't know and "Friends are those people who know the words to the song in your heart and sing them back to you when you have forgotten the words." (Anonymous) "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) "The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) Minsk Mazowiecki 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 Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of
something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than
cocaine.
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In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
- Lucille S. Harper Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson "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 Minsk Mazowiecki The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton Minsk Mazowiecki
"Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want,
and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.
-- Fred Astaire ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell "Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) Minsk Mazowiecki Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
-- Ken Dodd The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman Minsk Mazowiecki
Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it.
-- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
definition, is unassailable.
-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 Minsk Mazowiecki Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle
enough of them.
-- Flannery O'Connor Minsk Mazowiecki
"The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler "In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. Minsk Mazowiecki "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 To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland Minsk Mazowiecki
It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais "No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, g I worship the quicksand he walks in.
- Art Buchwald If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard Minsk Mazowiecki Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words "Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill Minsk Mazowiecki
"Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
- William Jennings Bryan "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine "If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you t Minsk Mazowiecki The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson 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 A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton Minsk Mazowiecki
Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) 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 Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
-- Anonymous Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with
the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
-- Cynthia Heimel Minsk Mazowiecki 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 Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) Minsk Mazowiecki
