"So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr Gliwice Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
-- Pablo Picasso "In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat." (Robert Byrne) Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
-- George Clemenceau Gliwice
A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your
girdle when your hips stick.
-- Ogden Nash No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac "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 The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle Gliwice Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Borge May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf Gliwice
There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and
inex 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 Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. Gliwice "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake Gliwice
We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) "I'll endorse with my name any of the following; clothing AC-DC, cigarettes, small tapes, sound equipment, ROCK N' ROLL RECORDS, anything, film, and film equipment, Food, Helium, Whips, MONEY!!" (And Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock Gliwice Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) Gliwice
To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
-- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume "I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
-- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 Gliwice "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) "I put on an act sometimes, and people think I'm insensitive. Really, it's like a kind of armor because I'm too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I' "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) Gliwice
Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Gliwice 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 blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton Gliwice
Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it
doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever
sea A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West 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. There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted
by a little physical antipathy.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Gliwice "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles Gliwice
The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley "I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H.L. Mencken Gliwice 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 There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the
outward behavior.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Gliwice
Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
-- Buck Henry Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
can't read.
-- Frank Zappa Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
-- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting
married Gliwice We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
-- Byrd Baggett 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 Gliwice
The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we
can do... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes.
-- Cybi People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet 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 Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine Gliwice The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Gliwice
"Drugs have done a lot of good. A lot of good songs have been written. 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. 'Dark Side of the Moon?' 100 dead kids. At least that many were conceived by people listening Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the
purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
-- Anatole France "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.
-- R. Scott Richards Gliwice 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 If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
-- Elbert Hubbard "Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) Gliwice
