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"Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own
language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call
me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
-- Rebecca West, If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to
contact us.
-- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes Warszawa Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb "Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Warszawa
The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One
cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the
marvelous str Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the
instrument plays itself.
-- Johann Sebastian Bach "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
-- Beaumont, Francis Warszawa Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
-- Rory Bremner "There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered." (Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom) No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac Warszawa
"Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) 'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Warszawa cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
gone beyond that.
-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-- Groucho Marx Warszawa
We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet
not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
-- François de La Rouch "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) Warszawa I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way
of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and
retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 Warszawa
"Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx Warszawa Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
-- Oscar Wilde The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore
exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.
-- Slavoj Zizek I worship the quicksand he walks in.
- Art Buchwald Warszawa
If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton "Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) Why doesn't she like me? Is it my hair, my overbite, the fact that I've worn the same shirt and
shorts for the last four years?
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated tele A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge Warszawa "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard Warszawa
I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and
remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't
work and the "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) Warszawa "... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
-- Albert Einstein There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
-- Neils Bohr Warszawa
People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does
come, we no longer exist.
-- Epicurus 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 It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed.
They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position.
-- John Hogan, Commonwealth 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 Warszawa Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins 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 "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) Warszawa
The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) "When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) 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 Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain Warszawa Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.
-- Sigmund Freud I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage Warszawa
Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac MARRIAGE, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two
slaves, making in all, two.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 "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 Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings Warszawa Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to
substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
-- Iris Murdoch Warszawa
I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in
opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
-- Sydney Smith "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) "The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein Warszawa 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 "I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real senten An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie Warszawa
