"Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-- Abraham Lincoln The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian Olesno Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.
-- Georges Danton, to his executioner Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other
friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things:
and in that Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner Olesno
Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take
what I have to give.
-- Cass Daley They were doing a full back shot of me in a swimsuit and I thought, Oh my God, I have to be so
brave. See, every woman hates herself from behind.
-- Cindy Crawford, supermodel Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
-- James Stephens Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Olesno In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not
allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating,
stealing, The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth Olesno
Spinster: A bachelor's wife. "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Just buy a box of popcorn and a Coca-Cola and sit back and watch.
-- James Carville, Clinton advisor, offering advice for Democrats on the term-limits vote in the
House Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) Olesno Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco Olesno
"Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wit If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
- George Bernard Shaw The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle 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 >From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud Olesno I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Olesno
In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song Olesno Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.
- Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep
up with software demands I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never
be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
-- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to Olesno
If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 "If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) Olesno "Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde Olesno
"If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Olesno It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
-- Benjamin Disraeli A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
-- Joseph Addison It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way
to bet.
-- Damon Runyan Olesno
"All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) Olesno The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. 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 Olesno
"You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
what you are getting.
-- Anonymous Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage,
he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it.
-- Helen Roland I tried a mail order bride, once, but she was damaged in the mail, and I had to return the unused part for my full refund. Olesno I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they
study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.
-- Gerald Early, writer, baseball do Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. "If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair." (Samuel Johnson) Olesno
"If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) Olesno "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) "From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan Olesno
My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me!
-- Henry Ford If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein "Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
-- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. Olesno blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV Olesno
