First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea.
-- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran Velenje The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
-- Ambrose Bierce 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
One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles Velenje
America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the
really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
-- Mark Twain Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
-- Karl Wallenda Velenje Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when
people laugh.
-- George Bernard Shaw I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
-- Will Rogers Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous Velenje
And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses "You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a
minute, it's longer than any hour. That is relativity.
-- Albert Einstein No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra Velenje Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
-- Anthony Burgess "The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. Velenje
"Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) 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) Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato 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 Velenje "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) Velenje
If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
bureaucracy won't.
-- Hyman Rickover All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
-- Anonymous I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides Velenje Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
-- Jerry Garcia "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm Velenje
Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.
- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your
thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be.
-- Richard Mitchell, from Velenje Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) Velenje
I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
-- Robert A. Humphrey Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Velenje The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
-- Ambrose Bierce Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde Velenje
The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne Velenje The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines
staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you
ask th "The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.
-- John Murray Velenje
"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) "Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman "The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Velenje Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake 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
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It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not
"Eureka!", but "That's funny..."
-- Isaac Asimov Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
automobile.
-- Billy Sunday Velenje There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy Velenje
"Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that
can be shot when it breaks down.
-- Russell Baker The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
-- Publilius Syrus By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. -- Socrates I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward Velenje "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw Velenje
