There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
-- Oscar Wilde 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." ( "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) 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 Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and
tomorrow aint as bad as it seems.
-- Billy Joel Prudnik There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good
marriage
-- Martin Luther "Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard)." (Edgar R. Fiedler) A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
-- Joseph Addison Prudnik
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it
is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
time A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf Prudnik "The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor Prudnik
No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) "Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle Prudnik If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada 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 "Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours." (Dale Prudnik
"Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) Prudnik A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw "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 In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
-- Christopher Morley Prudnik
"The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The
gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
-- Thomas Arnold Bennet A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost Prudnik When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too
conservative.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye Prudnik
I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in
every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does
not change his mind.
-- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
cough.
-- Pearl Williams Prudnik You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
-- Vince Lombardi Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is
merely a good excuse not to play football.
-- Fran Lebowitz Prudnik
Saying that Windows95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and
believing you've witnessed the second coming.
-- Guy Kawasaki If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for
half the money.
-- Arthur Godfrey It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy Prudnik Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-- Indian proverb Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein Prudnik
Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely
unnatural condition.
-- Robert Briffault Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Prudnik Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY 'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 Prudnik
Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
-- Seen on a t-shirt 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. An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all
the time. That would be hypocrisy.
-- Oscar Wilde blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) Prudnik "'Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!'" (Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass) To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
--Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
-- George Clemenceau Prudnik
Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. blah blah blah blah blah "This is the way the world ends: not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot) _end]
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"Hello Kitty is an icon that doesn't stand for a I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) Prudnik Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Prudnik
"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) "I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
-- Scott Adams Prudnik "Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) "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) In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler Prudnik
