It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
-- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-- Dorothy Parker You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost Jaroslaw "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some
simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion.
-- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 Jaroslaw
A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. "The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't
natural.
-- Bob Beckel, on term limits, CBS This Morning, 3/30/95 Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
-- Beaumont, Francis Jaroslaw Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright 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 You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain Jaroslaw
Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
-- Helen Keller Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde "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 Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to
vote for Colonel Sanders.
-- Bob Inglis, 1995 Jaroslaw Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you
have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.
-- Aldous Huxley Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Jaroslaw
All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. Jaroslaw It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing. "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) "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 Jaroslaw
If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
-- Elbert Hubbard I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes
your wife.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show "Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation." (Larry Flynt) Jaroslaw That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been
all along.
-- Madeleine L'Engle "If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) Jaroslaw
I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Jaroslaw Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman Jaroslaw
You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger "Drugs have done a lot of good. A lot of good songs have been written. 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. 'Dark Side of the Moon?' 100 dead kids. At least that many were conceived by people listening "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba Jaroslaw The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back Jaroslaw
"Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u "An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid." (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th earl of) Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston "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 Jaroslaw It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its
prime function of looking forward.
-- Margaret Fairless Barber Jaroslaw
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.
-- Georges Danton, to his executioner Correction: Instead of being arrested, as we stated, for kicking his wife down a flight of stairs and hurling a lighted kerosene lamp after her, the Rev. James P. Wellman died unmarried four years ago We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at
the same time.
- Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair Jaroslaw None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really
lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.
-- Herman Melville I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like
a black mistake.
-- D. H. Lawrence "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) Jaroslaw
Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
-- Publilius Syrus Jaroslaw I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in
charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
-- Hen "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crowf Jaroslaw
... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more
aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since
His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder "Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl Jaroslaw Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw Jaroslaw
