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Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous "Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. When you're away, I'm restless, lonely
Wretched, bored, dejected; only
here's the rub, my darling dear,
I feel the same when you are here.
-- Samuel Hoffenstein You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain Romania Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me
is another matter.
- Sir Winston Churchill Romania
I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy.
-- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
a fortune The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind
and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the
coachin You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be
sacrificed to expediency.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Romania "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop
questioning.
-- Albert Einstein "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Romania
Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Romania I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli 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 Romania
"If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) "I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
-- Erica Jong Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire Romania When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock Romania
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 Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we
respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
-- H. L. Mencken The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner Romania I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings "All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) Romania
"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) "Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
-- George Jean Nathan Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings Romania Work is a four-letter word.
-- The Smiths (Morrissey) In view of all the deadly computer viruses that have been spreading lately, Weekend Update
would like to remind you: when you link up to another computer, you're linking up to every
computer that th Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time Romania
Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on
tormenting the generations to come.
-- Montesquieu "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
-- Beaumont, Francis May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. "Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history Romania "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) A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield Romania
"I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) "In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." (Eric Hoffer) I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
-- Phillip Brooks Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams Romania 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 "Think off-center." (George Carlin) Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi Romania
The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.
- Henry Kissinger Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
-- Beaumont, Francis The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not
"Eureka!", but "That's funny..."
-- Isaac Asimov Romania 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 Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
-- Beaumont, Francis They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 Romania
This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises,
promotions, and other signs of appreciation.
-- Anonymous "Those who feel certainty are stupid and those with any imagination or understanding are filled with doubt and indecision." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through
self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
-- Helen Keller The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz Romania "The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem Romania
May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.
-- Barbara Bush, first lady, 1989 I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department
store and he asked for my autograph.
-- Shirley Temple Black Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would
be doing if he were alive today?
1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War.
2) Advising the President.
3) D "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Romania No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Romania
