In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe Presov If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
-- Byrd Baggett Presov
Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things.
-- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh Presov "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) "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet
not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
-- François de La Rouch Presov
Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law "Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
-- Oscar Wilde Presov Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting "There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 Presov
Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz Presov Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good
marriage
-- Martin Luther "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) Presov
He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines
staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you
ask th When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine Presov We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle Presov
A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy
contests, but they keep the crowd's attention.
-- Anonymous 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. Presov For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
-- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde Presov
Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
-- Rory Bremner "Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa Presov You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
-- Plutarch A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson Presov
I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) Presov You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
-- Kenneth H. Blanchard Presov
Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais "A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
-- Jerry Garcia Presov "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) "I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos--especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom ... Rather than starting inside, I start ou "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) Presov
"It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) 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 I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. Presov Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had
never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
-- Orison Swett Marden "I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
-- Johnny Carson Presov
Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
-- Oliver Herford One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
reputation.
-- Oscar Wilde I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet
not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
-- François de La Rouch Presov The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by
the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off!
-- Douglas Jerold, 1858 Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Presov
