Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass
produced with unskilled labor.
-- Wernher von Braun "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent
crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry
inspe Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
-- Anonymous The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
- George Bernard Shaw Ruda Slaska Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
-- Karl Wallenda Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
- H. G. Wells Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous Ruda Slaska
If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model.
Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush...
-- Dawn French When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted
by a little physical antipathy.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness
are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser
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- Henry David Thoreau A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Ruda Slaska
Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the
advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first.
-- Benjamin Franklin You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was
60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is.
-- Ellen DeGeneres "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) Ruda Slaska Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
-- 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
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-- Jonathan S. Haas Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard Ruda Slaska
Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to
do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did.
-- Anonymous 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 Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde Ruda Slaska When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked
me in the cellar.
-- Anonymous Ruda Slaska
"Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) "The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. "Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) Ruda Slaska Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
-- Pablo Picasso It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
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-- Abraham Lincoln Ruda Slaska
The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Ruda Slaska Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some
simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion.
-- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown Ruda Slaska
You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute
for life.
-- Andrew Brown Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. "The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) Ruda Slaska The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a
minute, it's longer than any hour. That is relativity.
-- Albert Einstein Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't
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-- Bob Beckel, on term limits, CBS This Morning, 3/30/95 Ruda Slaska
Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.
-- R. Scott Richards Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) "The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Ruda Slaska >From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea--written in red on every
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-- General Douglas MacArthur Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
-- Martin Mull Ruda Slaska
"The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the
faculty of laughter.
-- Joseph Addison My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
newspapers.
-- Thomas Jefferson Ruda Slaska Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his
cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that
Uncl Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov Ruda Slaska
"A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if
he finds her.
-- Benjamin Tillett then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Ruda Slaska Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Boies Penrose, 1931 Ruda Slaska
The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson Ruda Slaska And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no
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