I don't feel good.
-- Luther Burbank, dying words "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
-- Sidney Goff blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran When you're away, I'm restless, lonely
Wretched, bored, dejected; only
here's the rub, my darling dear,
I feel the same when you are here.
-- Samuel Hoffenstein Rybnik Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-- Stephen Covey "The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is
merely a good excuse not to play football.
-- Fran Lebowitz Rybnik
Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
-- Sigmund Freud The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life
of another.
-- Helen Keller Rybnik Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato Rybnik
"One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price. I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi Rybnik Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
-- Alphonse Allais Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan Rybnik
The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical
deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
-- Albert Einstein "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
-- Tom Robbins Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Rybnik Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf Rybnik
None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really
lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.
-- Herman Melville Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) Rybnik The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines
staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you
ask th Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
-- Carl Zwanzig Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde Rybnik
"That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo 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 Rybnik Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What
do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came
back with ano Rybnik
There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin "Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson Rybnik Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.
-- John Murray What's new? Most of my wife. A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
-- Buke Ellington Rybnik
The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
-- Colin Wilson A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner "Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra) Rybnik Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment.
-- Voltaire When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Rybnik
Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do
what he was afraid he couldn't do.
-- Henry Ford Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land "I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein Rybnik If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this
is true.
-- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion Rybnik
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 There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
-- Oscar Wilde What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy Rybnik Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos Rybnik
"Frank and explicit; that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others." (Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil) Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things!
-- Tom Lehrer My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
-- B.F. Skinner Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings Rybnik People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck "I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) "People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) Rybnik
