Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy
contests, but they keep the crowd's attention.
-- Anonymous Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 Lobzenica The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up
between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever.
-- Virginia Woolf "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha Lobzenica
"Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett 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 Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford Lobzenica One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do
what he was afraid he couldn't do.
-- Henry Ford The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of
them become real as you can.
-- Frank W. Woolworth Lobzenica
The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
-- Roger Simon I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
-- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life Lobzenica Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and
tomorrow aint as bad as it seems.
-- Billy Joel If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) Lobzenica
"I'll endorse with my name any of the following; clothing AC-DC, cigarettes, small tapes, sound equipment, ROCK N' ROLL RECORDS, anything, film, and film equipment, Food, Helium, Whips, MONEY!!" (And If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
-- Benjamin Disraeli If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers Lobzenica The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
-- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton Lobzenica
"The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) "Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's
being off the network.
-- Guy Almes "The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." (Albert Camus) Lobzenica Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does
not stop until you get into the office.
-- Robert Frost Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle Lobzenica
"There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered." (Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom) What's new? Most of my wife. I still live.
-- Daniel Webster, dying words Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
-- James Stephens Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana Lobzenica "Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Anonymous Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet
not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
-- François de La Rouch Lobzenica
In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice Lobzenica Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
happen to him.
-- John Barrymore - last words Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly Lobzenica
In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
a leg.
-- Abraham Lincoln A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large
organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.
-- Dave Barry Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it
doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever
sea Lobzenica "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa Lobzenica
"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
-- Herbert Westren Turnbull Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you
a hundre Lobzenica Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell Lobzenica
Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois Lobzenica An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson Lobzenica
It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should
live honourably.
-- Kant, Immanuel Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie "Whether it is a black cat or a white cat, as long as it can catch the rat, it is a good cat." (Deng Xiao Ping) "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Lobzenica "Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) Lobzenica
