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blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine "I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli Suceava Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take
what I have to give.
-- Cass Daley A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin Suceava
If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost Suceava Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again.
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show "When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) Suceava
"Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain "One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price. I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly good I thee endow.
-- Wedding Vow, Book of Common Prayer A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe Suceava Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
can't read.
-- Frank Zappa "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
-- Pablo Picasso Suceava
"Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the
really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
-- Mark Twain A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill I just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Suceava If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one
should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do
not allow "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Suceava
The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde "Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) 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 Suceava If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley Suceava
The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
-- Indigo Girls, song lyric When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
-- Buckminster In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
existence.
-- Sydney Smith It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should
live honourably.
-- Kant, Immanuel Suceava "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning
there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have
people all Suceava
We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
-- Isaac B. Singer 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 "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was
doing spying.
-- Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets for spying, in an i 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 Suceava And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln 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 All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce Suceava
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 "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson
articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are
apparently based May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. Suceava Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating
influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the
commun There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to
learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
-- Michel de Montaigne Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own
language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Suceava
"Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) 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 If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model.
Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush...
-- Dawn French blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin Suceava In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
-- Oliver Herford Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
-- Helen Keller Suceava
"To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those
little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find
out how to do it.
-- Theodore Roosevelt Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein Suceava "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words Suceava
Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman
is one who can find such a man.
-- Lana Turner "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer "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) Suceava "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all
over it and put your name at the top.
-- English Professor, Ohio University I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those
little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived Suceava
