"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) Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
- Robert Orben 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 Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and
tomorrow aint as bad as it seems.
-- Billy Joel Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
teachers.
-- Socrates Manilva Vote early and vote often.
- Al Capone I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa Manilva
Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
-- Beaumont, Francis If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if
he finds her.
-- Benjamin Tillett Manilva The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in
opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
-- Sydney Smith Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz Manilva
The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- W. Somerset Maugham In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge 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 The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards Manilva "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) Manilva
A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery 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 I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins Manilva He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a
philosopher.
- Socrates Manilva
I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it;
whenever you're right, shut up.
-- Ogden Nash Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?
-- Michael Meissner That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg Manilva "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens Manilva
Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
-- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. "Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. Manilva "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
-- George Clemenceau May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm
upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in
the palm Manilva
"People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold." (Richard Thalheimer, president, The Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
-- Lily Tomlin 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 There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's
being off the network.
-- Guy Almes Manilva People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 "Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) Manilva
Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Manilva "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
-- Hermione Gingold Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau Manilva
"If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore:
? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its
duties.
? Work Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder 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) I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Manilva "I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Louis Berlioz Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene Manilva
Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln Manilva "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never
be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
-- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
-- Neils Bohr Manilva
"To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crowf We must become the change we want to see.
-- Gandhi The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live Manilva Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of
them become real as you can.
-- Frank W. Woolworth "Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss." (Hal Holbrook, Wallstreet) Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor Manilva
