"Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss." (Hal Holbrook, Wallstreet) "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. Just
flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) Myszkow May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately
becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in
those tiny toil In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Myszkow
"Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wit You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are
difficult.
-- Lucius Anneaus Seneca Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere Myszkow There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another
to the world.
-- Antonio Machado Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) Myszkow
The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is
something everybody believes, except the person who made it.
-- Albert Einstein, attributed The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Myszkow "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) 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. When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
- George Washington Carver Myszkow
It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would
have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I
didn' The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner "Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra Myszkow Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous Myszkow
Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from
both sides.
-- Margaret Thatcher As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a
few grains of corn now and then."
-- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe Myszkow If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
-- Chekhov Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort Myszkow
Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and
joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not
as 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 What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler "For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Myszkow "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
happen to him.
-- John Barrymore - last words The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Myszkow
To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its
prime function of looking forward.
-- Margaret Fairless Barber It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are
difficult.
-- Lucius Anneaus Seneca Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous Myszkow "Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it." (Colin Powell) "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
-- Robert Benchley Myszkow
There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another
to the world.
-- Antonio Machado Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx blah "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Myszkow "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Myszkow
I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject,
when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron
scumbags dev I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) "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) "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) Myszkow There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) I don't feel good.
-- Luther Burbank, dying words Myszkow
Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White Myszkow May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) Myszkow
"Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to t "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") Myszkow After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle The child is the father of the man.
-- William Wordsworth Myszkow
