The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
ethical infants.
-- General Omar Bradley Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
bathroom in the middle of it.
-- Nick Mirov The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers Nitra Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and
cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
-- Tom Robbins And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words Nitra
If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle "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) Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito Nitra "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
is.
-- Arnold Bennett Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a
holding pattern over Philadelphia.
-- Judith Viorst Nitra
Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at
the same time.
- Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up
between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever.
-- Virginia Woolf Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright Nitra Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses Nitra
Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas
doctors rob you and kill you too.
-- Anton Chekhov Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous Nitra In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that
no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
-- Paul Dirac "Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
-- Chekhov Nitra
I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
write better.
- A. J. Liebling Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous "Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
-- Oscar Wilde Nitra Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through
self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
-- Helen Keller Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith The telephone company is urging people to *please* not use the telephone unless it is absolutely
necessary in order to keep the lines open for emergency personnel. We'll be right back after this
bre Nitra
Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
-- Helen Rowland I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
-- Elvis Presley "I think people resist freedom because they're afraid of the unknown. But it's ironic....That unknown was once very well known. It's where are souls belong....The only solution is to confront them--co Nitra He who laughs, lasts.
-- Mary Pettibone Poole A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There
are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's
reall My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who
take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
-- INDIRA Nitra
"Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon "No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." (Henry B. Adams) Nitra You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By
giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you
will Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. Nitra
Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher Nitra "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort Nitra
Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
-- Niels Bohr A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward Nitra We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked
me in the cellar.
-- Anonymous Nitra
"It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books--what other men do not say in whole books." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols) Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde "If I were still a critic, I would loathe knowing the person I was writing about. There's enough of an incestuous relationship between subject and writer." (Manny Farber, American film theorist) Nitra Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore:
? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its
duties.
? Work The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short Nitra
The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon Nitra Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
-- J. Heller In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton Nitra
