Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott I tried a mail order bride, once, but she was damaged in the mail, and I had to return the unused part for my full refund. "No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, g There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin Nova Gorica There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. Nova Gorica
"Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) 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 Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you
a hundre If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
bureaucracy won't.
-- Hyman Rickover The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward Nova Gorica Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
-- Ambrose Bierce He who laughs, lasts.
-- Mary Pettibone Poole Nova Gorica
If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
- Lucille S. Harper "The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman Nova Gorica Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I
was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper.
-- Smith & Jones "Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) Nova Gorica
"The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
-- Plutarch "See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and Nova Gorica "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling Nova Gorica
At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in
every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West 'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 "Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) Nova Gorica Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
-- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting
married "Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) Nova Gorica
You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great "If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti Nova Gorica Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take
her off his hands.
-- Sacha Guitry Nova Gorica
Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away,
the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.
-- John Murray True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
- Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable
statues I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen Nova Gorica Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) Nova Gorica
We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork
picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
-- Tom Stoppard Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing. Nova Gorica "I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) Nova Gorica
Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles Weaseling out of things is good. It's what separates us from the other animals....except weasels.
-- Homer Simpson, character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
-- Erma Bombeck Nova Gorica Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
-- Ken Dodd The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.
- Henry Kissinger "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) Nova Gorica
"The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
-- Sioux Indian Prayer Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anonymous True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is
always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.
-- Friedrich Nietzsch "It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books--what other men do not say in whole books." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols) Nova Gorica Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
-- George Saunders - last words The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle Nova Gorica
Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde "Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart blah "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) "I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio." (Joan Rivers) Nova Gorica Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
write better.
- A. J. Liebling Nova Gorica
