Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
-- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" Ostroleka "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) 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 If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Ostroleka
Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf Honor lies in honest toil.
-- Grover Cleveland "Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Ostroleka Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and
illiterate sport fishermen.
-- P. J. O'Rourke In the end, everything is a gag.
- Charlie Chaplin "The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is n Ostroleka
A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they
oppose it.
-- Sigmund Freud The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
- George Bernard Shaw Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
-- George Jean Nathan Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are
capable of being.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Ostroleka If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry
that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
-- Dale Carnegie Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Anonymous "I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) Ostroleka
The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to
passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are . . .
grand Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler Ostroleka Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-- Abraham Lincoln Ostroleka
"Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.
-- Mark Twain "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell Ostroleka "Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman Ostroleka
No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be
paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's
life The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) Never moon a werewolf.
-- Mike Binder Ostroleka I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) Ostroleka
I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that
M&Ms really do melt in your hand...
-- Peter Oakley If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
-- Scott Adams We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
-- Buck Henry Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary
to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.'
-- Bierce, A The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce Ostroleka Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window.
You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house.
-- Jean Ke It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) Ostroleka
If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge Tear open packet, unfold and use.
-- Directions on moist towelette package "People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult." (Anne Ostroleka "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Ostroleka
Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of
suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room.
-- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner 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 Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
-- Robert Benchley Ostroleka To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
-- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Ostroleka
"Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) Dear Mrs, Mr, Miss, or Mr and Mrs Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action. -- C A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi Ostroleka If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do
what he was afraid he couldn't do.
-- Henry Ford Ostroleka
The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. "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 "God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
the workmanship.
-- John Renmerde Ostroleka "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 Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Ostroleka
