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How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create
it herself.
- Anais Nin There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra Bratislava Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
automobile.
-- Billy Sunday There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux Bratislava
Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
- Robert Frost Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health,
knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
-- Roger Babson I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis Bratislava "Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms "Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em." (William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, II:5) "College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) Bratislava
"I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is
when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.
-- Marcel Achard 'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow Bratislava the social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for
all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation.
-- Peter People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) Bratislava
He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are
capable of being.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Bratislava "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too.
When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing
extraordinary Bratislava
A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch Bratislava A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
-- Karl Wallenda Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden Bratislava
I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice Bratislava I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the
opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
-- Oscar W Bratislava
Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) "Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton Bratislava "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. Bratislava
"Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are
capable of being.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
-- Oscar Wilde A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.
- Henry Kissinger Bratislava Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Louis Berlioz I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) Bratislava
Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne "Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Bratislava Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
- Samuel Palmer "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) I do not see the EEC as a great love affair. It is more like nine desperate middle-ages couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope. -- Tynan Bratislava
It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is
the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be
cr I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson "Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does
come, we no longer exist.
-- Epicurus The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
- Lucille S. Harper Bratislava "Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I Bratislava
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 Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large
organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.
-- Dave Barry To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman "In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) Bratislava Goodbye, Everybody!
-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton "One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price. I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I Bratislava
