Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
-- George Clemenceau Good friends are good for your health.
-- Irwin Sarason Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
-- Gertrude Stein, dying words Talmaciu I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
write better.
- A. J. Liebling Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm Talmaciu
It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 I still live.
-- Daniel Webster, dying words Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau Talmaciu "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) "No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree." (Lee Rudolph) "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Talmaciu
You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By
giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you
will 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 I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.
-- Wayne Gretzky The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings Talmaciu In medieval times, people thought that evil spirits could enter a person through an open mouth.
These days they more often leave that way.
-- David Deckert "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman Talmaciu
This compact disc is made from analog masters recorded without noise reduction. Half the tracks,
in fact, were recorded in a dismal, cheap basement eight-track studio with puddles of water on
the fl Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
--Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
-- Sigmund Freud "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Talmaciu "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." (Mark Twain) There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley Talmaciu
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 "... adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, quoted in his obituary, Time) "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the
slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional
convi Talmaciu Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
-- Ambrose Bierce Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson Talmaciu
The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz "Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) In medieval times, people thought that evil spirits could enter a person through an open mouth.
These days they more often leave that way.
-- David Deckert Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb Talmaciu Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed.
They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position.
-- John Hogan, Commonwealth 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 Talmaciu
If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for
themselves.
-- F. Emerson Andrews Women's liberationists spread the word that...the only peaceful family is one in which either the
wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous.
-- R. Emmett Tyell, The Liberal Crack-Up, 1984 Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anonymous Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
-- Robert Browning Talmaciu Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare Talmaciu
"A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Vote early and vote often.
- Al Capone The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado Talmaciu There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to
be a coincidence.
-- Jeremy S. Anderson Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Borge Talmaciu
"Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa There is more to life than increasing its speed.
-- Gandhi Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa "Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures--in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together." Talmaciu The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
-- Niels Bohr If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) "It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck Talmaciu
Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager Talmaciu Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole Talmaciu
Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings "Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) Talmaciu We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton "For others do I wait ... for higher ones, stronger ones, more triumphant ones, merrier ones, for such as are built squarely in body and soul: laughing lions must come." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "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." Talmaciu
