The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In
this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
-- Marianne Williamson "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to
help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to
comfort us along Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke Myslowice I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright We are the echo of the future.
-- W. S. Merwin Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
-- James Stephens Myslowice
Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
what you are getting.
-- Anonymous "I think people resist freedom because they're afraid of the unknown. But it's ironic....That unknown was once very well known. It's where are souls belong....The only solution is to confront them--co When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already
were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe In view of all the deadly computer viruses that have been spreading lately, Weekend Update
would like to remind you: when you link up to another computer, you're linking up to every
computer that th Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz Myslowice blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
-- Plutarch Myslowice
Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter "Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation." (Larry Flynt) I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman Myslowice If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one
should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do
not allow Myslowice
"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) "God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is
when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.
-- Marcel Achard Myslowice If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health,
knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
-- Roger Babson The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
- unknown Myslowice
Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea.
-- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being
gummed by a newt. It doesn't actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle.
-- Molly Ivins Myslowice "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) "Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba Myslowice
"Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." (Alexander Pope) The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived
in this century. I didn't live in this century.
-- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) Myslowice Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take
her off his hands.
-- Sacha Guitry That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt Myslowice
The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up
between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever.
-- Virginia Woolf If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton "Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things!
-- Tom Lehrer When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already
were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Myslowice Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique
added to the armamentarium of political inquiry. Anyone who cannot negotiate Chi squares,
assess randomi Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous Myslowice
Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb Myslowice "The feminists used to say that chivalry and ladyhood were ways of keeping women down and preventing them from standing toe to toe with the guys. Now you've got a lot of women saying that if a guy is "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes
your wife.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Myslowice
"The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) ... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more
aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since
The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short Myslowice Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from
both sides.
-- Margaret Thatcher Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm Myslowice
Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman 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 "The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) Myslowice I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen "If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.
-- Wayne Gretzky Myslowice
Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous
and dreadful.
-- Samuel Johnson Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all
I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it."
-- Jerry Seinfeld Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. Myslowice 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 They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
- Bill Hirst Myslowice
