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 "Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Wrzesnia A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted
by a little physical antipathy.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig
deep into the actual and get something out of that - this doubtless is the right way to live.
-- H I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. we are for the most part
more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.
-- Thoreau Wrzesnia
I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx 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 Wrzesnia Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
-- John Tudor "Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Wrzesnia
"See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having
passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it.
-- Anonymous Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.
-- Londo Molari When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-- Sacha Guitry Wrzesnia Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac Wrzesnia
"There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
-- Elbert Hubbard "Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
- George Bernard Shaw Wrzesnia Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
- H. G. Wells The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
-- Virginia Woolf Wrzesnia
I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song "I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe "This is the first age that's paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one." (Arthur C. Clarke) The more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
-- Mark Twain Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer Wrzesnia I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
- Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable
statues I tried a mail order bride, once, but she was damaged in the mail, and I had to return the unused part for my full refund. "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) Wrzesnia
Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton "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) "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Wrzesnia A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) 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 Wrzesnia
"If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
-- Oscar Wilde Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein "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) Wrzesnia 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 blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you
don't know. He knows now that he doesn't know. Last year, he didn't know that.
-- Bill Parcels, New Engla Wrzesnia
I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender "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 dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
-- Oscar Wilde With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln Wrzesnia The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx Wrzesnia
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the
really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
-- Mark Twain Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch "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) A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian Wrzesnia Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The
average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted
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I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) Wrzesnia He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche "Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop Wrzesnia
The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth
shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.
-- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, 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" "Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) "We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe 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) Wrzesnia We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely
to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Wrzesnia
