Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
-- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act i. Sc. 1. Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous Darlowo Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
- Cicero I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
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No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn
themselves to a life of vinegar.
-- Countess of Blessington "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
-- Beaumont, Francis 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 Darlowo The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
-- Christopher Morley Darlowo
Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and
therefore congenial to it.
-- G. K. Chesterton "I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real senten It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a
few grains of corn now and then."
-- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings Darlowo "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavours to live the life which
one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
-- Henry David Thoreau Darlowo
Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 "The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) Darlowo The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crowf Darlowo
"Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
-- J. Heller "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman Darlowo Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
-- Rory Bremner As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust
there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
-- Andre Norton "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Darlowo
Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
-- Sigmund Freud Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem
mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's
chara "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
-- Elbert Hubbard Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton Darlowo And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts,
in living color, you're about to see another first -- an attempted suicide.
-- Chris Hubbock, who sh Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) Darlowo
MARRIAGE, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two
slaves, making in all, two.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family.
-- Navaho saying Darlowo "Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous
and dreadful.
-- Samuel Johnson Darlowo
He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're
the boss."
-- Anonymous In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach "When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." (Friedrich Wilhelm Ni Darlowo Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
-- Alphonse Allais You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson Darlowo
"Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." (Dylan Thomas) Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
-- Indigo Girls, song lyric Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it.
-- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long Darlowo People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not
allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating,
stealing, Darlowo
"No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, g You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln Darlowo blah "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
-- Libbie Fudim It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal Darlowo
What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
-- James Stephens The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. Darlowo If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage,
he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it.
-- Helen Roland Darlowo
