blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) "There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips." (Elsa Lanchester) Man and wife make one fool. I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
- Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable
statues "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Gniew "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) 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 Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately
becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in
those tiny toil Gniew
And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell 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 Gniew "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Gniew
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 "The bite of conscience, like the bite of a dog into a stone, is a stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
-- Anonymous You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson Gniew "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
it.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler Gniew
There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Gniew 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 A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 Gniew
The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-- Ambrose Bierce Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo Gniew Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite
without any wish to act.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn Gniew
"Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
day into your answers.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept
me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't
everythin Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman Gniew "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Gniew
"You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson
articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are
apparently based Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does
come, we no longer exist.
-- Epicurus Gniew "Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer Gniew
An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
-- Robert A. Humphrey Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter Gniew 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 "Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) I'll sleep when I'm dead.
- Warren Zevon Gniew
The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point "Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) Gniew There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. 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 Gniew
"If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) "Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) Gniew Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Gniew
Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James Gniew "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. Gniew
