"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) "Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
-- Anonymous A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers Czarna Woda All television is children's television.
-- Richard P. Adler Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In
this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
-- Marianne Williamson All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe Czarna Woda
Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
-- Edgar Watson Howe Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard 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. "Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) Czarna Woda I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller "In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler Czarna Woda
If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx Czarna Woda If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
-- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting
married I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Czarna Woda
If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton Czarna Woda 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 Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Boies Penrose, 1931 "Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) Czarna Woda
There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy Czarna Woda Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins Czarna Woda
Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again.
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that Czarna Woda Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw Tear open packet, unfold and use.
-- Directions on moist towelette package Czarna Woda
Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and
hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in
Heaven.
-- P. J Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
him.
-- Rich Little Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley Czarna Woda "I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin Czarna Woda
Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
happen to him.
-- John Barrymore - last words Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at
heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels,
upon the lev Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of
suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room.
-- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain Czarna Woda "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) Czarna Woda
Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins Czarna Woda A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen "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 Czarna Woda
Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you
together, but do so with all your heart.
-- Marcus Aurelius Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
can't read.
-- Frank Zappa Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. 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 Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
-- George Jean Nathan Czarna Woda The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the
source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity,
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An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood I worship the quicksand he walks in.
- Art Buchwald The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model.
Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush...
-- Dawn French Czarna Woda 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 "There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered." (Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom) There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous Czarna Woda
