Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how
many can get through to you.
-- Mortimer J. Adler 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 I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker Central and Eastern Europe The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. Central and Eastern Europe
Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov Central and Eastern Europe Good friends are good for your health.
-- Irwin Sarason "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) "Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( Central and Eastern Europe
How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create
it herself.
- Anais Nin Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent
crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry
inspe "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 Central and Eastern Europe "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Central and Eastern Europe
Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There
are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's
reall "It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar Central and Eastern Europe "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer "I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) Central and Eastern Europe
In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore:
? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its
duties.
? Work Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody Central and Eastern Europe You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-- Richard Bach It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol Central and Eastern Europe
Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach MARRIAGE, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two
slaves, making in all, two.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
day into your answers.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke Central and Eastern Europe Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) Central and Eastern Europe
Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) Central and Eastern Europe "Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours." (Dale Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
-- M. Hirschfield Central and Eastern Europe
We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) "Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Central and Eastern Europe He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're
the boss."
-- Anonymous Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett Central and Eastern Europe
Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery "The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is n Central and Eastern Europe A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
-- Buke Ellington When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday
afternoon.
-- Susan Ertz Central and Eastern Europe
He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The
gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
-- Thomas Arnold Bennet Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
-- G. K. Chesterton "We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses Central and Eastern Europe And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery We can say 'Peace on Earth,' we can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have
not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us, then it will not be.
-- Betty Shabazz By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST Central and Eastern Europe
"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) "Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures--in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together." "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
-- Scott Adams 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. Central and Eastern Europe Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
-- G. K. Chesterton A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
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