Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain "The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb "The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is n Frombork I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for
half the money.
-- Arthur Godfrey More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) Frombork
Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
-- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one.
-- Oscar Levant, to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee Frombork Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to
get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
-- Billie Holliday Frombork
Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld "If I were still a critic, I would loathe knowing the person I was writing about. There's enough of an incestuous relationship between subject and writer." (Manny Farber, American film theorist) Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-- Irwin Corey Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Frombork There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer 2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time.
-- inside of a Pepsi cap Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
-- Carl Zwanzig Frombork
Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
-- Anonymous Frombork Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle
enough of them.
-- Flannery O'Connor "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Frombork
A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was
doing spying.
-- Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets for spying, in an i If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire Frombork "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your
way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition -- plowing straight ahead, come what
may Frombork
Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them
down people's throats.
-- Howard Aiken Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
- unknown Frombork Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) Frombork
Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor "College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of
fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality
and Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Frombork Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
-- Phillip Brooks The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb Frombork
"It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you
have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.
-- Aldous Huxley The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short "Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. Frombork For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous
and dreadful.
-- Samuel Johnson Frombork
A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite
without any wish to act.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Frombork The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being
brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
-- Cynthia H "I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always send them a plant to wish them well. Of course, it's a cactus." (Norman B Frombork
I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong
and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny
is but th Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) Frombork Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher Frombork
Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy
the waking hours much more.
-- Woody Allen "You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 Frombork I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) "Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) Frombork
