Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't
take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates...
-- Anonymous I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
is.
-- Arnold Bennett When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz Ljubljana "If I were still a critic, I would loathe knowing the person I was writing about. There's enough of an incestuous relationship between subject and writer." (Manny Farber, American film theorist) You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's
arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
-- Jonathan Carroll, Outside "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Ljubljana
I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What
do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came
back with ano Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
-- Walt Disney Ljubljana "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be
feasible.
- A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop Ljubljana
My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me!
-- Henry Ford What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
-- Gertrude Stein, dying words Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy Ljubljana Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong
and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny
is but th I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack Ljubljana
Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
-- James McNeill Whistler It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are
romantic dreamers and actually believe that estrogenic skin cream must do something or they
couldn't cha History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. Ljubljana "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
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There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor "Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is n "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) Ljubljana Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is
merely a good excuse not to play football.
-- Fran Lebowitz If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin Ljubljana
When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with
the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover,
One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do
what he was afraid he couldn't do.
-- Henry Ford In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be
built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
-- Anne S English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. Ljubljana The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde "When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wro Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost Ljubljana
"Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Ljubljana Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier We look forward to the time when the power to love of will replace the love of power. Then will our
world know the blessings of peace.
-- William Gladstone Ljubljana
To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) "I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde Ljubljana "The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.
-- R. Scott Richards 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 Ljubljana
People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god." (Jean Rostand) Ljubljana Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning MARRIAGE, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two
slaves, making in all, two.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Ljubljana
Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes
some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny.
-- George Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford Ljubljana When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall
looking frantic.
-- Steven Wright I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked
me in the cellar.
-- Anonymous "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) Ljubljana
He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One
looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our
human A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein Ljubljana By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you
will become a philosopher.
-- Socrates "Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any compliment and limit, but only o There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
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