Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) My other wife is beautiful. "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) Zabrze Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte Zabrze
"Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other
friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things:
and in that Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The
average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted
to "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Zabrze Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
--Loesje Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach "The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) Zabrze
A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais "To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) Zabrze You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Zabrze
Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?
-- Michael Meissner Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) "For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) Zabrze "My daughter has never forgiven me. for what, I don't know, because for years, she won't speak to me. She blackens my name in the press and makes me think abortion is an excellent idea." (Klaus Kinsk In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson
articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are
apparently based Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard Zabrze
"What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature." (Francois Marie Ar My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who
take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
-- INDIRA Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) Zabrze Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( "I put on an act sometimes, and people think I'm insensitive. Really, it's like a kind of armor because I'm too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I' Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard Zabrze
Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell "I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear ... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived." (Rabbi H "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. Zabrze 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 Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker Zabrze
The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him.
-- Cher "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would
have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I
didn' Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
-- Pablo Picasso Zabrze Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do
its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.
-- And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau Zabrze
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous Zabrze When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender "I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
-- Albert Einstein Zabrze
What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples'
decisions for them?
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer We look forward to the time when the power to love of will replace the love of power. Then will our
world know the blessings of peace.
-- William Gladstone The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Zabrze Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
legislators.
-- P. J. O'Rourke I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder Zabrze
"I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as
saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball.
-- Deborah Tan "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) Zabrze After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely
pleased to announce the appointment of David Steele to the post.
-- Philip Streifer, Superintendent Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs "Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) Zabrze
He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going
to make fun of you.
-- Woody Allen If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose
-- Jim Elliott If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Zabrze Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
definition, is unassailable.
-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) Zabrze
