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 Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
-- Phillip Brooks May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-- Irwin Corey Balkans Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.
-- Londo Molari Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not
impress the neighbors as being very much.
-- Zora Neale Hurston Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and
blows up the bonfire.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Balkans
Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln "For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly Anyway, 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,
ign The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the
purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
-- Anatole France Balkans "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) "If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) "It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing." (Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises) Balkans
They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to
get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
-- Billie Holliday My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius Balkans The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig "In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Balkans
NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows
how to make us disobedient.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they
are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
-- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action
of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Balkans "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 For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) Balkans
How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create
it herself.
- Anais Nin Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning He who laughs, lasts.
-- Mary Pettibone Poole The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain Balkans The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you
don't know. He knows now that he doesn't know. Last year, he didn't know that.
-- Bill Parcels, New Engla Balkans
God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at
the same time.
- Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again.
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show "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 A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine Balkans I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it." (Claude Rains, as Mr. Dryden, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) The more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
-- Mark Twain Balkans
"If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." (Albert Einstein) "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
-- Anonymous "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Balkans Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz 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 Balkans
If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
bathroom in the middle of it.
-- Nick Mirov "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
the workmanship.
-- John Renmerde Balkans Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Go away...I'm alright.
-- H. G. Wells, dying words Balkans
The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent
crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry
inspe Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 Balkans When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims
of intact ones.
-- Peter DeVries And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw Balkans
"One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
-- Terry Cohen If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake "I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) Balkans We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie Balkans
Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and
discipline.
-- Michel de Montaigne I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell Balkans There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one
of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
-- George Bernard Shaw No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber Balkans
