The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue.
-- Anonymous "Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) 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 By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
a fortune "Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) Smolenskaya Oblast Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock Smolenskaya Oblast
It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way
to bet.
-- Damon Runyan "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) 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 Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm Smolenskaya Oblast 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 A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost "Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) Smolenskaya Oblast
If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy.
-- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle Smolenskaya Oblast Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin Smolenskaya Oblast
"The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for
themselves.
-- F. Emerson Andrews There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Smolenskaya Oblast You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost 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) "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) Smolenskaya Oblast
When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement
speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have
th 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 History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) Smolenskaya Oblast Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb "When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." (Friedrich Wilhelm Ni Smolenskaya Oblast
Good friends are good for your health.
-- Irwin Sarason All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn Smolenskaya Oblast "When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." (Friedrich Wilhelm Ni Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the
source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity,
ign A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) Smolenskaya Oblast
Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.
-- David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes. "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson Smolenskaya Oblast If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
-- Lily Tomlin "Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) "Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Smolenskaya Oblast
The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
- Cicero Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words
that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
-- Alexander Pope "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) Smolenskaya Oblast Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?
-- Michael Meissner Smolenskaya Oblast
A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is
something everybody believes, except the person who made it.
-- Albert Einstein, attributed Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx "When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton Smolenskaya Oblast Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism. --Heidi Hartmann [The Unhappy "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Smolenskaya Oblast
Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin "Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words "Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it." (Colin Powell) "A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) Smolenskaya Oblast Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch All you need is love.
-- The Beatles, song title Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately
becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in
those tiny toil Smolenskaya Oblast
Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
-- Rita Rudner "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) Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) Smolenskaya Oblast Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Smolenskaya Oblast
