Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
-- Vladimir Nabokov In medieval times, people thought that evil spirits could enter a person through an open mouth.
These days they more often leave that way.
-- David Deckert A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey "Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) The child is the father of the man.
-- William Wordsworth Orzesze Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Orzesze
Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not
know what to create.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills Orzesze If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost Orzesze
"Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim
to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire.
-- Gen. George Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) Orzesze The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Orzesze
"The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) "The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is n The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
time Orzesze I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. we are for the most part
more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.
-- Thoreau Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in
a car he sticks his head out the window.
-- Steve Bluestone I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
-- Virginia Woolf Orzesze
"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 "For others do I wait ... for higher ones, stronger ones, more triumphant ones, merrier ones, for such as are built squarely in body and soul: laughing lions must come." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.
- Henry Kissinger "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) Orzesze In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) Orzesze
The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows "One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show 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 If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson Orzesze Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle Beginning in February 1976 your assistance benefits will be discontinued ... Reason: it has been
reported to our office that you expired on January 1, 1976.
-- excerpt from a letter, Illinois Depart The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko Orzesze
A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There
are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's
reall Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature
machine gun.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell "Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
-- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight Orzesze Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it
is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer Orzesze
Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and
quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that
remains fa blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution,
of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always
be Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz Orzesze The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes
in search of martyrdom is that the former expresses his idea most fully in death while the latter
really "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.
-- Anonymous Orzesze
The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Orzesze Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford "This is the first age that's paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one." (Arthur C. Clarke) Orzesze
He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
-- St. Francis of Assisi Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
history.
-- George Bernard Shaw Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the
opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
-- Oscar W Orzesze How could they tell?
-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) Orzesze
Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler "In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) "Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) "Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em." (William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, II:5) "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) Orzesze If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa "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 Orzesze
