Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
-- Oscar Wilde 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 "No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." (Henry B. Adams) "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
-- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 Krapkowice A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
-- Sidney Goff He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
-- Ralph Marston Krapkowice
"To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent...
-- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported
in a contemporary "American Scholar" "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde "I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) Krapkowice "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm Krapkowice
It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." (Mark Twain) Every flower must grow through dirt.
-- Anonymous There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
imagination.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were
reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing,
and Krapkowice May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos Krapkowice
"Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house
as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
-- Homer, Odyssey, ninth century Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce "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) Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. Krapkowice The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing.
Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
-- Oscar Wilde I didn't accept it. I received it.
-- Richard Allen, National Security Advisor to President Reagan, explaining the $1000 in cash and
two watches he was given by two Japanese journalists after he hel An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood Krapkowice
blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we
can do... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes.
-- Cybi I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp Krapkowice Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off
his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night.
-- Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley O "I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken Krapkowice
Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy "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 If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short Krapkowice It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Mark Twain "I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats." (Woody Allen, in regard to the KKK) "Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored..." (Herman Melville, Krapkowice
Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this
is not difficult.
-- Charlotte Whitton "All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod Krapkowice "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Krapkowice
A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
bathroom in the middle of it.
-- Nick Mirov Krapkowice You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little
plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.
-- Ha We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us.
-- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) Krapkowice
Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!
-- Calvin Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
-- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act i. Sc. 1. No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
- William Jennings Bryan Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.
- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life Krapkowice Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how
many can get through to you.
-- Mortimer J. Adler Remember your dreams.
-- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey Krapkowice
You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
-- Lily Tomlin "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
-- Robert Benchley 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 Krapkowice Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
-- Ken Dodd Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau "I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) Krapkowice
You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By
giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you
will 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 In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is
simply one of those things which happen from time to time.
-- Edward P. Tryon "The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Krapkowice You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you
can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist.
-- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern blah "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( Krapkowice
