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 Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) Slupsk The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
-- Brian Pickrell then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating
influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the
commun Slupsk
"Think off-center." (George Carlin) "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you
have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.
-- Aldous Huxley Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
- George Bernard Shaw Slupsk In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.
-- R. Scott Richards I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf Slupsk
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-- Samuel Butler Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
- Samuel Palmer If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards Slupsk A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
-- Christopher Morley "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens Slupsk
"The feminists used to say that chivalry and ladyhood were ways of keeping women down and preventing them from standing toe to toe with the guys. Now you've got a lot of women saying that if a guy is Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken "Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one.
-- Oscar Levant, to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee Slupsk All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson Slupsk
It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker Slupsk A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana Slupsk
Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to
learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
-- Michel de Montaigne The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.
- Henry Kissinger "Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous Slupsk "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous Slupsk
My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in
bed with her.
-- Lenny Bruce It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein 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 Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and
illiterate sport fishermen.
-- P. J. O'Rourke "In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) Slupsk We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us.
-- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country
could do under first-class management.
-- Senator Soaper Slupsk
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 Study men, not historians.
-- Harry Truman The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
- Lucille S. Harper The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of
your life.
-- Abbie M. Dale Slupsk >From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that
M&Ms really do melt in your hand...
-- Peter Oakley Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing
they die earlier.
-- H. L. Mencken Slupsk
Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person that loves you
enough chance to love you enough.
-- Dinah Shore "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances
continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the
distance A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. -- Socrates Slupsk Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers Anything too stupid to be said, is sung.
-- Voltaire Slupsk
I don't feel good.
-- Luther Burbank, dying words When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns Slupsk Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and
illiterate sport fishermen.
-- P. J. O'Rourke During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) Slupsk
The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I
was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper.
-- Smith & Jones "Think off-center." (George Carlin) In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb Slupsk I tried a mail order bride, once, but she was damaged in the mail, and I had to return the unused part for my full refund. It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie Slupsk
