Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau "Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) "I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen Nowy Dwor Gdanski Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming .. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over
myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long
per Nowy Dwor Gdanski
"Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) "Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
time If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford Nowy Dwor Gdanski The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live "Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware;
those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software.
-- Unknown author, Levitating T Nowy Dwor Gdanski
"Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor We are the echo of the future.
-- W. S. Merwin I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf Nowy Dwor Gdanski "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle Nowy Dwor Gdanski
The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 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.
- Sir Winston Churchill I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb Nowy Dwor Gdanski A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine "Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton Nowy Dwor Gdanski
"Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) "Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) "When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." (Friedrich Wilhelm Ni Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-- Carl Gustav Jung Nowy Dwor Gdanski Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and
quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that
remains fa Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as
saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball.
-- Deborah Tan Nowy Dwor Gdanski
Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can
only read the title.
-- Virginia Woolf They were doing a full back shot of me in a swimsuit and I thought, Oh my God, I have to be so
brave. See, every woman hates herself from behind.
-- Cindy Crawford, supermodel I worship the quicksand he walks in.
- Art Buchwald We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard Nowy Dwor Gdanski In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been
widely regarded as a bad move.
-- Douglas Adams 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 The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth Nowy Dwor Gdanski
He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows
how to make us disobedient.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the
custom of shaving.
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All "College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the
opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
-- Oscar W Nowy Dwor Gdanski Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler 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 Nowy Dwor Gdanski
Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
ethical infants.
-- General Omar Bradley The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the
purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
-- Anatole France "Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw Nowy Dwor Gdanski "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. Nowy Dwor Gdanski
Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in
opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
-- Sydney Smith "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) "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, ignorance, g 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 "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) Nowy Dwor Gdanski It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is
the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be
cr Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw Nowy Dwor Gdanski
Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going
to make fun of you.
-- Woody Allen A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe Nowy Dwor Gdanski Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin Nowy Dwor Gdanski
You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb "It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality." (Francois Sagan) When you're away, I'm restless, lonely
Wretched, bored, dejected; only
here's the rub, my darling dear,
I feel the same when you are here.
-- Samuel Hoffenstein Nowy Dwor Gdanski Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in
accordance with the dictates of reason.
-- Oscar Wilde The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben Nowy Dwor Gdanski
