"The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler 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 Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. Mikolow "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) Well, I think that it's a- it's had some difficult times but I think we have- we, I think, have been able
to make some very good progress and it's- I would say that it's- it's- it's delightful that w For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier Mikolow
Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person that loves you
enough chance to love you enough.
-- Dinah Shore Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. -- Socrates You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber Mikolow The nourishment is palatable.
-- Millard Fillmore, dying words Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton "Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) Mikolow
Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben 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 When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life
of another.
-- Helen Keller "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) Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau Mikolow My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of
genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Mikolow
"Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
-- Ambrose Bierce Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford Mikolow "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb Mikolow
If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
-- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) "Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would
be doing if he were alive today?
1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War.
2) Advising the President.
3) D Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan Mikolow Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) Mikolow
"Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett Mikolow I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
bathroom in the middle of it.
-- Nick Mirov And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln Mikolow
Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
- Samuel Palmer Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
chastisement.
-- Ernest Dimnet Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover Mikolow Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
existence.
-- Sydney Smith I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain "We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) Mikolow
If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how
to make it interesting.
-- Milton Berle, when called to the microphone at the 2nd Annual Comedians Hal The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings "The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
-- Albert Einstein Mikolow "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 Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and
tomorrow aint as bad as it seems.
-- Billy Joel "When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wro Mikolow
"Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do
what he was afraid he couldn't do.
-- Henry Ford Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in
opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
-- Sydney Smith Mikolow "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time Mikolow
All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
-- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison Mikolow He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius Vote early and vote often.
- Al Capone Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder Mikolow
This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement
speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have
th Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons "It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Mikolow "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton Mikolow
