The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without
feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex,
the ugl When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are
difficult.
-- Lucius Anneaus Seneca Bratislava There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another
to the world.
-- Antonio Machado If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton "I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real senten Bratislava
He who laughs last didn't get it.
-- Helen Giangregorio Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing
matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.
-- Amy Bloom Health food makes me sick.
-- Calvin Trillin Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney Bratislava In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! 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 "I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs
long enough."
-- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates Bratislava
Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing
they die earlier.
-- H. L. Mencken ...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not,
the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms
with Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle Bratislava Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
ages as much as 20 years.
-- Anonymous A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley Bratislava
A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
-- Anonymous "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) "People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold." (Richard Thalheimer, president, The Bratislava "I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi Bratislava
Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
-- Hoshang N. Akhtar Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe "When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." (Friedrich Wilhelm Ni The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause
we believe to be just.
-- Abraham Lincoln Bratislava The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing
changes and yet everything is completely different.
-- Aldous Huxley Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
- William Jennings Bryan Bratislava
I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they
study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.
-- Gerald Early, writer, baseball do "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg Bratislava Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death Bratislava
If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
-- Johnny Carson If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) Man and wife make one fool. Bratislava 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 A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust
there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
-- Andre Norton Bratislava
"Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi "Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of g Bratislava Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are
difficult.
-- Lucius Anneaus Seneca Bratislava
"A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler "In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) Bratislava He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would
have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I
didn' "I've never let my school interfere with my education." (Mark Twain) Bratislava
blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) Man and wife make one fool. All television is children's television.
-- Richard P. Adler Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was
doing spying.
-- Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets for spying, in an i Bratislava Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur Bratislava
Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find
that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our
pain Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man
will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
-- Henry Ford "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Bratislava "The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) "My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go." (Oscar Wilde, his last recorded words) "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Bratislava
