I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without
feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex,
the ugl the social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for
all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation.
-- Peter History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. Zawiercie Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would not live forever, because
we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live
forever, Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon "What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux." (Thomas Pynchon) Zawiercie
Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By
giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you
will "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford Zawiercie "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H.L. Mencken Zawiercie
Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when
people laugh.
-- George Bernard Shaw Zawiercie Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous Zawiercie
Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein Zawiercie "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
-- Ambrose Bierce Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch Zawiercie
If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a
thing to be acheived.
-- William Jennings Bryant "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) "Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President Zawiercie "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of
mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
-- Rita Mae Brown Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin Zawiercie
"The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot "It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality." (Francois Sagan) Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Steven Wright [You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley Zawiercie 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 "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
newspapers.
-- Thomas Jefferson Zawiercie
"I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs
long enough."
-- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates 2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time.
-- inside of a Pepsi cap "There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Zawiercie Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
-- Anonymous "I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something
different.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine Zawiercie
"Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
history.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) Zawiercie Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and
retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz Zawiercie
If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not
know what to create.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane Zawiercie Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
- Samuel Palmer I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder Zawiercie
The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
-- Robert M. Pirsig "The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing. Zawiercie When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you
don't know. He knows now that he doesn't know. Last year, he didn't know that.
-- Bill Parcels, New Engla I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh "Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) Zawiercie
"A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your
girdle when your hips stick.
-- Ogden Nash "A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa Zawiercie To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its
prime function of looking forward.
-- Margaret Fairless Barber There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have
had any experience with them.
-- H. L. Mencken Zawiercie
