The child is the father of the man.
-- William Wordsworth Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
--Loesje He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine; as he
who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me.
-- Thomas Jefferson Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl Pszczyna Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
-- Sigmund Freud May you never leave your marriage alive. An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie Pszczyna
I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" >From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea--written in red on every
beachhead form Australia to Tokyo--There is no substitute for victory!
-- General Douglas MacArthur I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward 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 blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Pszczyna We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
- Buckminster Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon Pszczyna
Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up
our minds to walk boldly through them.
-- Orison Swett Marden 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 "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) Pszczyna One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
reputation.
-- Oscar Wilde "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) A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi Pszczyna
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 "Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it "The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh Pszczyna My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett Pszczyna
Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
-- Oscar Wilde "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) The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce
intelligence.
-- Philo Vance Pszczyna "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost Pszczyna
"It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books--what other men do not say in whole books." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols) What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken "A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke Pszczyna Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
-- Vladimir Nabokov Pszczyna
"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 It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca "If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." (Albert Einstein) And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. Pszczyna No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with
the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
-- Cynthia Heimel Pszczyna
.. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over
myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long
per If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and
cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
-- Tom Robbins Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team Pszczyna Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov 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 Pszczyna
The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.
-- Mark Twain A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous Pszczyna We have only one person to blame, and that's each other.
-- Barry Beck, New York Ranger, on who started a fight furing a hockey game blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge Pszczyna
"Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt Jake liked his women the way he liked his kiwi fruit: sweet yet tart, firm-fleshed yet yielding to the
touch, and covered with short brown fuzzy hair.
-- Jonathan S. Haas Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist Pszczyna Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa Pszczyna
"I offer images; I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached ... But, we can only open the doors. We can't drag people through. I can't free them unless they want to be free--more than any Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
-- Leslie Jeanne Sahler Pszczyna If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to
substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
-- Iris Murdoch Pszczyna
