If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
one.
-- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not
"Eureka!", but "That's funny..."
-- Isaac Asimov Alba Iulia If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-- Abraham Lincoln "Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Alba Iulia
To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation.
-- Latin Proverb Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
-- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. Alba Iulia Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) Alba Iulia
I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back.
-- Henny Youngman Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical
deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
-- Albert Einstein "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Alba Iulia Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been
all along.
-- Madeleine L'Engle Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor Alba Iulia
Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at
heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels,
upon the lev "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 If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill "Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected..." (Chuck Jones) Alba Iulia He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
-- J. Heller Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert Alba Iulia
The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- W. Somerset Maugham I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the
marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.
-- Bette Davis blah "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? "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) Alba Iulia The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill "It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
-- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 Alba Iulia
If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be
built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
-- Anne S If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry >From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some
day I intend reading it.
-- Groucho Marx Alba Iulia A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
time blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) Alba Iulia
"The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) "Drugs have done a lot of good. A lot of good songs have been written. 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. 'Dark Side of the Moon?' 100 dead kids. At least that many were conceived by people listening Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley Alba Iulia "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..." ( Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do
its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.
-- Alba Iulia
Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
-- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
-- Bhagava Gita Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each
other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's
nerves A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take
her off his hands.
-- Sacha Guitry Alba Iulia Here's to you and here's to me,
and I hope we never disagree.
But, if that should ever be,
to HELL with you, here's to ME!
-- Anonymous "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing
changes and yet everything is completely different.
-- Aldous Huxley Alba Iulia
Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window.
You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house.
-- Jean Ke "It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
-- Rory Bremner An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for
love is measured by fullness, not by reception.
-- Harold Loukes Alba Iulia "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to
us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
-- Jeff Raskin There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux Alba Iulia
Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST Alba Iulia It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing. Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
-- Anthony Burgess The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the
first half.
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) Alba Iulia
"It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
-- Al Bernstein Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
-- Ray Bandy I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power
so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics Alba Iulia The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to
contact us.
-- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of
something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than
cocaine.
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 Alba Iulia
