A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does
not stop until you get into the office.
-- Robert Frost We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein Banska Bystrica Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no
religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear
of "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) Banska Bystrica
A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
-- Joseph Addison Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach blah "Ideas are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and, following them, you reach yo "The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker Banska Bystrica Dear Mrs, Mr, Miss, or Mr and Mrs Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action. -- C The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it,
Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me
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"Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) 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 Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin Banska Bystrica The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
-- Charles Pierce Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton Banska Bystrica
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavours to live the life which
one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
-- Henry David Thoreau When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
-- Clarence Darrow Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous Banska Bystrica Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe How could they tell?
-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died Banska Bystrica
"By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you
get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a
Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not
mean his maker, but himself.
-- Dean Inge If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the
faculty of laughter.
-- Joseph Addison Banska Bystrica To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it;
whenever you're right, shut up.
-- Ogden Nash When you're away, I'm restless, lonely
Wretched, bored, dejected; only
here's the rub, my darling dear,
I feel the same when you are here.
-- Samuel Hoffenstein "Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) Banska Bystrica
Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. "Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures--in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together." Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent
crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry
inspe Banska Bystrica "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous Banska Bystrica
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 "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of
your life.
-- Abbie M. Dale Never moon a werewolf.
-- Mike Binder A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Banska Bystrica Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford Banska Bystrica
A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
one.
-- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun Banska Bystrica "I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats." (Woody Allen, in regard to the KKK) While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings Banska Bystrica
It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
-- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
-- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" Facts are the enemy of truth.
- Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson Banska Bystrica Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to
criticize others.
-- H. Jackson Brown He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns Banska Bystrica
"Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their
powers as a State depend.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
-- Hoshang N. Akhtar Banska Bystrica The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne "In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) Banska Bystrica
For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
neighborhood.
-- Maya Angelou Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
-- Polish proverb It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) Banska Bystrica "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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.
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