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 "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber 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 Zilina He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) Zilina
"An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person
perfectly.
-- Anonymous Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark
in one another.
-- Kenny Ausubel "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
-- Oliver Herford Zilina By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. -- Socrates In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent...
-- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported
in a contemporary "American Scholar" Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on
tormenting the generations to come.
-- Montesquieu Zilina
Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell Honor lies in honest toil.
-- Grover Cleveland "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl could want in her life, except for good
taste in men!
-- Wedding Toast Zilina "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: "Give little, give seldom, and above all,
give grudgingly." Otherwise, what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of
sexual Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins Zilina
Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
- Paul Erdos The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
-- Albert Einstein It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus Zilina If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
-- Al Bernstein "The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
-- Sidney Goff Zilina
I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call
me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
-- Rebecca West, I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller Zilina The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman "We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad Zilina
Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim
to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire.
-- Gen. George "You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana "Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) Zilina Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
-- Vladimir Nabokov "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. Zilina
We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future
generations Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth Zilina We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
-- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-- Richard Bach If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel Zilina
...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde "Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-- Samuel Butler I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen Zilina "We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken "We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li Zilina
Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
wastes to Third Wo A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau Zilina It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
-- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand Zilina
"Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.
-- Tom Robbins Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle
enough of them.
-- Flannery O'Connor blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the
table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the
disg Zilina Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
- Robert Frost Zilina
The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
-- Publilius Syrus Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger Zilina Why doesn't she like me? Is it my hair, my overbite, the fact that I've worn the same shirt and
shorts for the last four years?
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated tele Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.
-- General Douglas MacArthur "Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) Zilina
