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We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
-- Buck Henry "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having
passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it.
-- Anonymous We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen Kielce I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson 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 If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
-- James McNeill Whistler Kielce
"Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) Why doesn't she like me? Is it my hair, my overbite, the fact that I've worn the same shirt and
shorts for the last four years?
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated tele Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage,
he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it.
-- Helen Roland "Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) "Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) Kielce I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
-- Jules Renard Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf "Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain Kielce
Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt "Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're
the boss."
-- Anonymous Kielce We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate,
the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
-- Rainer Maria Ril Kielce
Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action
of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted
in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism.
-- Heidi Hartmann, The Unha Kielce The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland Kielce
I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
-- Will Rogers "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara "Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. Kielce If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
-- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg Kielce
At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they
can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and
stupid from "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) Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me!
-- Henry Ford Kielce A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take
her off his hands.
-- Sacha Guitry All you need is love.
-- The Beatles, song title Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the
writing will be just as it should be.
-- Mark Twain Kielce
I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
-- Oscar Wilde 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 It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin "Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton Kielce Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would not live forever, because
we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live
forever, Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde Kielce
Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up
our minds to walk boldly through them.
-- Orison Swett Marden "Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright Kielce The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Kielce
A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost "To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) Kielce "People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult." (Anne We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. Kielce
The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crowf The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
chastisement.
-- Ernest Dimnet That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton Kielce If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis 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 A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman Kielce
Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment... it's
exciting to have a real crisis on your hands.
-- Margaret Thatcher, on the Falklands Conflict I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken Kielce If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov "The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard Kielce
