Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
-- Ken Dodd "Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
automobile.
-- Billy Sunday Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the
second, "For my best friend."
-- Anonymous Kartuzy The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt 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 "See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and Kartuzy
My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
-- Brian Pickrell "Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx Kartuzy By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
a fortune Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. Kartuzy
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem
mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's
chara I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-- Gilda Radner Kartuzy blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields Kartuzy
A White House well filled, a little peanut field well tilled, and a wife who will go to the Bronx are
great riches.
-- Poor Jimmy's Almanac The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
car.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon Kartuzy "To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how
many can get through to you.
-- Mortimer J. Adler Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them
down people's throats.
-- Howard Aiken Kartuzy
I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
reputation.
-- Oscar Wilde Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
- Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) Kartuzy "Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures--in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together." Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are
capable of being.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea.
-- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone Kartuzy
I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby
see only a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney and continue on their way.
-- Vincent Van Gogh Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
-- John Adams, dying words This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker Kartuzy Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
-- Anonymous Kartuzy
Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. "One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) Kartuzy "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick Kartuzy
The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer "Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day." (Ali bin "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) Kartuzy We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. "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) Kartuzy
Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton "For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn Kartuzy The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies "To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) Kartuzy
"A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) "I should reproach him for not giving us enough evidence." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970, what he would say to God if they 'met') If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen Kartuzy Women's liberationists spread the word that...the only peaceful family is one in which either the
wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous.
-- R. Emmett Tyell, The Liberal Crack-Up, 1984 The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. Kartuzy
You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
-- Oscar Wilde, dying words When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't
have done.
-- Malcolm Forbes Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Kartuzy Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison Kartuzy
