The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem Pleszew The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko Pleszew
I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject,
when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron
scumbags dev We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw "God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa Pleszew Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler Pleszew
The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating
influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the
commun Pleszew Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for
comprehensive health care during a candidates' forum, said he supported "erection-to-
resurrection" coverage. He later a Pleszew
He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec "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 Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it,
there will be a fish.
-- Ovid Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President Pleszew Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber 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 "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Pleszew
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 The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus Pleszew Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-- ee cummings Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
-- Oscar Wilde Pleszew
There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be
said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot
successfully Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare Pleszew "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Pleszew
Man and wife make one fool. "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) "To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) "We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li "I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) Pleszew 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 Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. Pleszew
Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford Pleszew 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 "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) 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 Pleszew
Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
-- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes
time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.
-- Fred Astaire Pleszew "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) "I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy Pleszew
"Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wit "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen "To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Pleszew Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things!
-- Tom Lehrer Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason "Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) Pleszew
In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
-- John Tudor Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill Pleszew Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein Pleszew