The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. Drobeta Turnu Severin We must become the change we want to see.
-- Gandhi "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) 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) Drobeta Turnu Severin
Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
-- Elbert Hubbard You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Drobeta Turnu Severin Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan "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 Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin Drobeta Turnu Severin
Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
ages as much as 20 years.
-- Anonymous 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 "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Drobeta Turnu Severin "The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde 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
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Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant "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 "People drag their progeny around with them like a ball and chain, like some terrible deadweight that hinders their every move - and that, as often as not, effectively winds up killing them." (Michel In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops
were side by side in the Italian village of Cremona. First were the Amatis, and outside their shop
hung The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My
answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer
to that would be Drobeta Turnu Severin He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung 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 Drobeta Turnu Severin
My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who
take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
-- INDIRA There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright "Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde Drobeta Turnu Severin "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away,
the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Drobeta Turnu Severin
"I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) 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 A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Guitry Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. Drobeta Turnu Severin "Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
- Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming "God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) Drobeta Turnu Severin
A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard "Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Drobeta Turnu Severin More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words "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 It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
-- St. Francis of Assisi Drobeta Turnu Severin
Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five
isn't bad.
-- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous Honor lies in honest toil.
-- Grover Cleveland Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
-- Carl Zwanzig Drobeta Turnu Severin Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
-- Charles Pierce A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr Drobeta Turnu Severin
blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) "Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous blah "Ideas are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and, following them, you reach yo Drobeta Turnu Severin "No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." (Henry B. Adams) I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it
doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever
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"All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) "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 Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln Drobeta Turnu Severin A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some
simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion.
-- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.
-- Londo Molari Drobeta Turnu Severin
Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor 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. After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare Drobeta Turnu Severin It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by
the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off!
-- Douglas Jerold, 1858 Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
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