What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
-- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the
first half.
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree
to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full
of grac I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby
see only a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney and continue on their way.
-- Vincent Van Gogh Brzeg Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) Brzeg
"Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) [You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron "We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde Brzeg I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five
isn't bad.
-- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) Brzeg
Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes "I've never let my school interfere with my education." (Mark Twain) "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Brzeg If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) Brzeg
If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. "Those who feel certainty are stupid and those with any imagination or understanding are filled with doubt and indecision." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
-- St. Francis of Assisi To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson Brzeg A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health,
knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
-- Roger Babson 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 Brzeg
Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
-- St. Francis of Assisi May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. Brzeg And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't
have done.
-- Malcolm Forbes Brzeg
He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
-- Publilius Syrus "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) "In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
-- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 Brzeg The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too.
When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing
extraordinary I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland Brzeg
He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth "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 "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) Brzeg The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this
is true.
-- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) Brzeg
"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 Man is a natural polygamist. He always has one woman leading him by the nose and another
hanging on to his coattails.
-- H. L. Mencken Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn
themselves to a life of vinegar.
-- Countess of Blessington "I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) Brzeg Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin Brzeg
Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
-- Karl Wallenda The soul is healed by being with children.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevski I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock Brzeg Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) "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) Brzeg
Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
-- John Adams, dying words Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
one.
-- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri Brzeg If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
-- Johnny Carson "In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday Brzeg
A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
-- Colin Wilson Brzeg Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are
romantic dreamers and actually believe that estrogenic skin cream must do something or they
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