A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston "Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
-- J. Heller Dabrowa Gornicza My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if
he finds her.
-- Benjamin Tillett Dabrowa Gornicza
The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James 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.
-- Winston Churchill The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison Dabrowa Gornicza We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) Dabrowa Gornicza
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne Dabrowa Gornicza I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers "Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi Just buy a box of popcorn and a Coca-Cola and sit back and watch.
-- James Carville, Clinton advisor, offering advice for Democrats on the term-limits vote in the
House Dabrowa Gornicza
Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
a leg.
-- Abraham Lincoln In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) Dabrowa Gornicza All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford Dabrowa Gornicza
If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly "There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane Dabrowa Gornicza "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were
reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing,
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"I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) "The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Dabrowa Gornicza A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What
do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came
back with ano To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation.
-- Latin Proverb Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner Dabrowa Gornicza
Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) "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) Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.
- Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep
up with software demands Dabrowa Gornicza People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the
table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the
disg Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet Dabrowa Gornicza
I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.
-- Barbara Bush, first lady, 1989 The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.
-- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his
campaign pledge that there would be "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Dabrowa Gornicza "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous Dabrowa Gornicza
Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
day into your answers.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
-- Publilius Syrus "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) "I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats." (Woody Allen, in regard to the KKK) Dabrowa Gornicza If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by
the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off!
-- Douglas Jerold, 1858 Dabrowa Gornicza
When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up
something appropriate and do it.
-- E. W. Howe 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 "And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 Dabrowa Gornicza "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
-- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good Dabrowa Gornicza
Man and wife make one fool. 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 The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes "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) I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they
study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.
-- Gerald Early, writer, baseball do Dabrowa Gornicza Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Dabrowa Gornicza
