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Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically!
-- Steven Wright Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
pure ignorance?
-- Holbrook Jackson I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Upper Silesia The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber Upper Silesia
"Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh Upper Silesia "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.
-- General Douglas MacArthur Upper Silesia
To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman Golf is a good walk spoiled.
-- Mark Twain What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz Upper Silesia It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein 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 Upper Silesia
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 I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
-- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking
campaign We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa Upper Silesia You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and
therefore congenial to it.
-- G. K. Chesterton "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) Upper Silesia
Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George bernard Shaw Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning 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 "God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) 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 Upper Silesia "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 Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. 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 Upper Silesia
It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.
-- Tom Robbins Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not
"Eureka!", but "That's funny..."
-- Isaac Asimov The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's
arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
-- Jonathan Carroll, Outside Upper Silesia There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be
paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's
life Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde Upper Silesia
I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields "Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill Upper Silesia The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan Upper Silesia
2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time.
-- inside of a Pepsi cap You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton "A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Upper Silesia Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you
get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a
There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be
said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot
successfully Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius Upper Silesia
"He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous 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 Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. Upper Silesia True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics a An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf Upper Silesia
"I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries Silence is argument carried out by other means.
- ErnestoCheGuevara Upper Silesia If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? >From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea--written in red on every
beachhead form Australia to Tokyo--There is no substitute for victory!
-- General Douglas MacArthur Upper Silesia
"Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig
deep into the actual and get something out of that - this doubtless is the right way to live.
-- H Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
wastes to Third Wo I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger Upper Silesia Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Borge A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous Upper Silesia
