If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more
experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat
soiled or torn? In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing.
Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
-- Oscar Wilde Wodzislaw Slaski Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin Wodzislaw Slaski
Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
-- John Adams, dying words There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one
of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
-- George Bernard Shaw "God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison Wodzislaw Slaski Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't
take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates...
-- Anonymous Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous "The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) Wodzislaw Slaski
May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
-- Beaumont, Francis Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. Wodzislaw Slaski The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not,
the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms
with 2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time.
-- inside of a Pepsi cap Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find
out how to do it.
-- Theodore Roosevelt Wodzislaw Slaski
Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you
underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell "I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz Wodzislaw Slaski People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous "I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos--especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom ... Rather than starting inside, I start ou Wodzislaw Slaski
In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the
next meal would come from.
-- Peter F. Drucker Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway.
-- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the
first half.
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson Wodzislaw Slaski I still live.
-- Daniel Webster, dying words Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
-- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking
campaign Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad Wodzislaw Slaski
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 Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not
impress the neighbors as being very much.
-- Zora Neale Hurston When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-- Sacha Guitry May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
-- Helen Rowland Wodzislaw Slaski "Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage
he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it.
-- Anon. How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
a leg.
-- Abraham Lincoln Wodzislaw Slaski
"We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to
be a coincidence.
-- Jeremy S. Anderson 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 I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein Wodzislaw Slaski Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
-- Robert Orben He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. Wodzislaw Slaski
We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The
premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool.
-- Kelvin Throop I If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
-- Stanislaw J. Lem Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken Wodzislaw Slaski It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
-- Vince Lombardi When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
-- Clarence Darrow Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx Wodzislaw Slaski
"It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived
in this century. I didn't live in this century.
-- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry
that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
-- Dale Carnegie "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein Wodzislaw Slaski "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa Wodzislaw Slaski
"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) "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) 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 "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel Wodzislaw Slaski Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in
every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and Wodzislaw Slaski
It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are
romantic dreamers and actually believe that estrogenic skin cream must do something or they
couldn't cha My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only
make $500,000.
-- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house
as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
-- Homer, Odyssey, ninth century Wodzislaw Slaski "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
-- Buck Henry Wodzislaw Slaski
