Borba English Daily - English version of government-backed daily newspaper. Updated every weekday.
In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 "In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams Newspapers To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I ask
is a chance."
-- Anon. When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up
something appropriate and do it.
-- E. W. Howe Newspapers
"I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real senten One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
- Lucille S. Harper "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer Newspapers If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Newspapers
If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
-- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner "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 Newspapers Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in
opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
-- Sydney Smith Newspapers
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 This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
-- M. Hirschfield Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa Newspapers In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
-- Christopher Morley "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) "In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) Newspapers
Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland "Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
- Cicero Newspapers Weaseling out of things is good. It's what separates us from the other animals....except weasels.
-- Homer Simpson, character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy Newspapers
"Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwile careers in the
street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack
of u Work is a four-letter word.
-- The Smiths (Morrissey) People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck Newspapers "Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra) The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of
mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
-- Rita Mae Brown Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
-- Vladimir Nabokov Newspapers
When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his
life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.
-- Francois Cavanna There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be
paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's
life A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard "I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
-- Indigo Girls, song lyric Newspapers Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman What's new? Most of my wife. The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw Newspapers
Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous Newspapers Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple Newspapers
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
-- Anonymous Newspapers True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is
always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.
-- Friedrich Nietzsch The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher Newspapers
Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
-- Byrd Baggett Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. Newspapers Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie Newspapers
In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops
were side by side in the Italian village of Cremona. First were the Amatis, and outside their shop
hung "It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents "Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) Newspapers The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going
to make fun of you.
-- Woody Allen Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes "Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours." (Dale Newspapers
