"Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas "The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) "God is dead: but considering the state Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom) Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills Srem County "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Boies Penrose, 1931 Srem County
A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe "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 blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life
of another.
-- Helen Keller Srem County "It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality." (Francois Sagan) The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) Srem County
When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with
the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover,
Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more
they possess.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke Srem County 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 I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White Srem County
"If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban Beginning in February 1976 your assistance benefits will be discontinued ... Reason: it has been
reported to our office that you expired on January 1, 1976.
-- excerpt from a letter, Illinois Depart Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and
retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Srem County If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Srem County
Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
-- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer Srem County If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
-- Johnny Carson blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 Srem County
Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) Srem County Well, I think that it's a- it's had some difficult times but I think we have- we, I think, have been able
to make some very good progress and it's- I would say that it's- it's- it's delightful that w Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork
picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
-- Tom Stoppard "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) Srem County
Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh "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) Srem County He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
-- Al Bernstein "You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru Srem County
A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland "I offer images; I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached ... But, we can only open the doors. We can't drag people through. I can't free them unless they want to be free--more than any Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. -- Socrates They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to
run his, either.
-- Anonymous Srem County He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte "For others do I wait ... for higher ones, stronger ones, more triumphant ones, merrier ones, for such as are built squarely in body and soul: laughing lions must come." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Srem County
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) "I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti Srem County I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman Srem County
"I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-
proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe
is Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain The telephone company is urging people to *please* not use the telephone unless it is absolutely
necessary in order to keep the lines open for emergency personnel. We'll be right back after this
bre Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude Srem County When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill Guide to understanding a net.addict's day:
Slow day: didn't have much to do, so spent three hours on usenet.
Busy day: managed to work in three hours of usenet.
Bad day: barely squeezed in three ho I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi Srem County
Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being
gummed by a newt. It doesn't actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle.
-- Molly Ivins Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Srem County Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown Srem County
