blah "You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Why doesn't she like me? Is it my hair, my overbite, the fact that I've worn the same shirt and
shorts for the last four years?
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated tele "I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always send them a plant to wish them well. Of course, it's a cactus." (Norman B "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.
-- Tom Robbins Gheorgheni Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to
me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
-- Lucille Ball Gheorgheni
"In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan Gheorgheni By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you
will become a philosopher.
-- Socrates "Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen Gheorgheni
Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the
consequences.
-- Isadora Duncan "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist Gheorgheni Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
-- Vladimir Nabokov Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell Gheorgheni
If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would
be able to endure it.
-- Schopenhauer I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
gone beyond that.
-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
write better.
- A. J. Liebling Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
happen to him.
-- John Barrymore - last words Gheorgheni Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.
-- American Proverb Gheorgheni
If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be
closed for any other business.
-- Abraham Lincoln To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that.
-- Shakespeare, William Gheorgheni Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
-- B.F. Skinner "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) Gheorgheni
Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things!
-- Tom Lehrer It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton Gheorgheni "If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you t "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) Gheorgheni
The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than
the procreation of children.
-- Thornton Wilder There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers "Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal Gheorgheni Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner Gheorgheni
Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this
is not difficult.
-- Charlotte Whitton Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) Gheorgheni Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) "When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) Gheorgheni
"Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet
enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) "The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) Gheorgheni "And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton Gheorgheni
If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi Gheorgheni Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( Gheorgheni
"Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point Gheorgheni "For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz Gheorgheni
