Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
- Paul Erdos "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) Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-- Carl Gustav Jung Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover Jaslo Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr "If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." (Albert Einstein) Jaslo
The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not,
the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms
with "Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics a Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison Jaslo Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a
holding pattern over Philadelphia.
-- Judith Viorst I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Jaslo
The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent
crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry
inspe A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke
or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
-- Charles Brower My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a
philosopher.
- Socrates Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or
theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
-- George Santayana Jaslo Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
-- Winston Churchill Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three
children and no theories.
-- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester Jaslo
Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl could want in her life, except for good
taste in men!
-- Wedding Toast 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 "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) I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
-- Will Rogers Jaslo "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 I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back.
-- Henny Youngman I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields Jaslo
Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family.
-- Navaho saying He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy Jaslo For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate,
the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
-- Rainer Maria Ril "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford Jaslo
Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) "Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) In view of all the deadly computer viruses that have been spreading lately, Weekend Update
would like to remind you: when you link up to another computer, you're linking up to every
computer that th Jaslo The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his ownself in his own hands. Like water. And if he
opens his fingers then- he needn't hope to find himself again.
-- Robert Bolt from A Man For All Seas "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) Jaslo
We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper "Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having
passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it.
-- Anonymous We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
-- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight Jaslo Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
-- Beaumont, Francis "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Jaslo
I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
wastes to Third Wo The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy
the waking hours much more.
-- Woody Allen Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise 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. It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker Jaslo "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's
being off the network.
-- Guy Almes Jaslo
The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf "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 "We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni Jaslo Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley
Temple could do it at the age of four.
-- Katharine Hepburn When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 Jaslo
No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead Establishing yourself, furnishing a house, building up a comfortable existence, and having that menace hanging over your head all the time - no, I prefer to live in hotels, cafés, just passing through Jaslo Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy
together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back
on at Jaslo
"I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway.
-- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and
retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. "Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 Jaslo How could they tell?
-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely
to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to Jaslo
