"No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree." (Lee Rudolph) There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers The soul is healed by being with children.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevski There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called
marriage.
-- James Holt McGavran The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
-- Robert M. Pirsig Cieszyn In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) Cieszyn
To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
-- Francis Crawford I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me. -- Dick Martin Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken Cieszyn Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
ages as much as 20 years.
-- Anonymous Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
-- B.F. Skinner Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-- Irwin Corey Cieszyn
"I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavours to live the life which
one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
-- Henry David Thoreau Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
-- Helen Keller Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
-- Oscar Wilde Cieszyn You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Cieszyn
Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a
thing to be acheived.
-- William Jennings Bryant The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
-- Erma Bombeck Cieszyn Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
-- Plutarch No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." (Mark Twain) Cieszyn
If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.
-- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War >From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln Cieszyn Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) Cieszyn
May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the
lessons that history has to teach.
-- Aldous Huxley "I offer images; I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached ... But, we can only open the doors. We can't drag people through. I can't free them unless they want to be free--more than any "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) Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
-- Jerry Garcia Cieszyn "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e Not to anticipate is already to moan.
-- Leonardo da Vinci Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
-- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act i. Sc. 1. Cieszyn
A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by
trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by l Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes
some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny.
-- George There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty Cieszyn "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln "The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) Cieszyn
The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more
experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat
soiled or torn? If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-- Abraham Lincoln "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Cieszyn Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Cieszyn
Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli 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 Cieszyn Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good
results: drag behind car through puddles, blow-dry on roofrack.
-- Laundry instructions on a shirt Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman Cieszyn
I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are.
-- Gore Vidal A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live Cieszyn The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr "My daughter has never forgiven me. for what, I don't know, because for years, she won't speak to me. She blackens my name in the press and makes me think abortion is an excellent idea." (Klaus Kinsk Cieszyn
Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw 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 Cieszyn Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) 2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time.
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