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"I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who,
doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a
machi Subotica A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that.
-- Shakespeare, William If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln Subotica
The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "I've never let my school interfere with my education." (Mark Twain) You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
write better.
- A. J. Liebling If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-- Samuel Butler Subotica A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for
themselves.
-- F. Emerson Andrews Subotica
Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante "Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker
room is the temple where they worship arrested development.
-- Russell Baker Subotica And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens Subotica
I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-- Dorothy Parker It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
time Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. Subotica "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Subotica
"Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your
thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be.
-- Richard Mitchell, from I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide Subotica "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken Subotica
A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of
fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality
and "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Subotica To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept
me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't
everythin The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth
shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.
-- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken Subotica
"Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and
hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in
Heaven.
-- P. J Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen I still live.
-- Daniel Webster, dying words Subotica If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Subotica
"Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) "When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
-- Chekhov "I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free." (Walker Percy, The Moviegoer) Subotica There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) Subotica
"You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
-- Henry James Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde Subotica What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples'
decisions for them?
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to
do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did.
-- Anonymous Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise Subotica
"If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford 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 was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Subotica If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
-- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making "The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only th Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window.
You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house.
-- Jean Ke Subotica
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they
can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and
stupid from Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) Subotica Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of
responsibility at the other.
-- Ronald Reagan, Saturday Evening Post, 1965 I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Subotica
