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Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin 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 Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
-- George Jean Nathan Zilina "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Zilina
Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above
weakness Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Zilina No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill Zilina
"Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
pure ignorance?
-- Holbrook Jackson Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Zilina "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) 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 He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) Zilina
University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be
paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's
life It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
-- Isaac B. Singer Zilina The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do
its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.
-- "Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) "The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) Zilina
If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position Zilina "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 love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings Zilina
"Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine "Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this
is not difficult.
-- Charlotte Whitton "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) Zilina "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it.
-- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton Zilina
I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George bernard Shaw Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show Zilina Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley
Temple could do it at the age of four.
-- Katharine Hepburn Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
-- Hermione Gingold It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot Zilina
At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) "What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature." (Francois Marie Ar "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) Zilina Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
-- Alphonse Allais I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl Zilina
This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers blah "You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) "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 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 The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. Zilina Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
- William Jennings Bryan Zilina
"Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day." (Ali bin "Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
-- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln Zilina The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the
lessons that history has to teach.
-- Aldous Huxley Zilina
Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Borge The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
is.
-- Arnold Bennett "It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry Zilina Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
-- Jerry Garcia Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
bureaucracy won't.
-- Hyman Rickover Zilina
