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Ionasiu family - Octavian Ionasiu and Linda Sinaga Indonesian. Romanian mixed couple living in Oslo, Norway.
Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
-- Leslie Jeanne Sahler There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
imagination.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it
is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer Personal Pages Remember your dreams.
-- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. Personal Pages
"If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine "Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous Personal Pages "A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain Golf is a good walk spoiled.
-- Mark Twain Personal Pages
Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
-- Arthur C. Coxe "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) Personal Pages I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables "For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) Personal Pages
The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous MARRIAGE, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two
slaves, making in all, two.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Personal Pages Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx Personal Pages
Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes
your wife.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
-- Publilius Syrus The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius "Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) Personal Pages Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
him.
-- Rich Little "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Personal Pages
In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau blah blah blah blah blah "This is the way the world ends: not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot) _end]
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"Hello Kitty is an icon that doesn't stand for a Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
-- Phillip Brooks Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali Personal Pages A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) Personal Pages
Marriage is a rest period between romances. Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The
average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted
to The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. Personal Pages All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen
closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping.
-- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin Personal Pages
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 Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 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 May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) Personal Pages You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra "Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment... it's
exciting to have a real crisis on your hands.
-- Margaret Thatcher, on the Falklands Conflict Personal Pages
Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
-- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your
way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition -- plowing straight ahead, come what
may "A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." (Fred Allen) Personal Pages May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval
of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
-- Henry Miller "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) Personal Pages
I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
-- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 We must become the change we want to see.
-- Gandhi "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 Personal Pages When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman Personal Pages
"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) It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are
romantic dreamers and actually believe that estrogenic skin cream must do something or they
couldn't cha The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at
heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels,
upon the lev Man and wife make one fool. Personal Pages Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
-- G. K. Chesterton "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Personal Pages
