I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey Gniezno When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
the workmanship.
-- John Renmerde The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw Gniezno
It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
-- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed "Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never
be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
-- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they
study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.
-- Gerald Early, writer, baseball do My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley Gniezno Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham "You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die "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 Gniezno
"Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) "The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) Gniezno "I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free." (Walker Percy, The Moviegoer) Marriage is a rest period between romances. Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost Gniezno
Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa "When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
teachers.
-- Socrates Gniezno In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent...
-- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported
in a contemporary "American Scholar" Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson Gniezno
The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard Gniezno Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
-- Oscar Wilde Gniezno
Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen
closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping.
-- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
coattails.
-- Clarence Darrow Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael 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 Gniezno Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had
never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
-- Orison Swett Marden then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor "I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) Gniezno
I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me
is another matter.
- Sir Winston Churchill "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine I still live.
-- Daniel Webster, dying words "Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it." (Colin Powell) I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.
-- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 Gniezno Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of
suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room.
-- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi I do not see the EEC as a great love affair. It is more like nine desperate middle-ages couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope. -- Tynan cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
gone beyond that.
-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic Gniezno
The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because
generally they are the same people.
-- G. K. Chesterton "Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia Gniezno Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team 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 There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor Gniezno
"Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi The nourishment is palatable.
-- Millard Fillmore, dying words Gniezno I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those
little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier Gniezno
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 The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) Gniezno "The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me. -- Dick Martin I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain Gniezno
In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes Gniezno "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 I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
-- Douglas Adams The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle Gniezno