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Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
-- Erica Jong I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy.
-- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board "Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for
themselves.
-- F. Emerson Andrews Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes
some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny.
-- George Mangalia When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his ownself in his own hands. Like water. And if he
opens his fingers then- he needn't hope to find himself again.
-- Robert Bolt from A Man For All Seas "Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I Mangalia
"In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't
have done.
-- Malcolm Forbes Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Mangalia There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde We are the echo of the future.
-- W. S. Merwin "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) Mangalia
...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words "Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard)." (Edgar R. Fiedler) At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink I'll sleep when I'm dead.
- Warren Zevon Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Mangalia We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb Mangalia
There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted.
-- Anonymous Mangalia "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
-- John Tudor Mangalia
"If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell Mangalia "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-- Richard Bach Mangalia
"The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) "We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
-- Scott Adams The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth
shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.
-- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, "Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) Mangalia Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The
premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool.
-- Kelvin Throop I Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden Mangalia
Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) Mangalia The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and
remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't
work and the Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
-- Anonymous The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
- unknown Mangalia
"Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston Mangalia "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The
premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool.
-- Kelvin Throop I Mangalia
Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard "It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) "What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux." (Thomas Pynchon) Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. Mangalia "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life
of another.
-- Helen Keller Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt Mangalia
"In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
-- Johnny Carson Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James Mangalia Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
bathroom in the middle of it.
-- Nick Mirov Mangalia
Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
-- Lord Dewar We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. Mangalia When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't
have done.
-- Malcolm Forbes All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He
experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of
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