"One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford Rincon de la Victoria Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
--Loesje To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge Rincon de la Victoria
"This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) "I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
is.
-- Arnold Bennett Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens Rincon de la Victoria Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a
thing to be acheived.
-- William Jennings Bryant A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are.
-- Gore Vidal "Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it." (Colin Powell) Rincon de la Victoria
A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman
is one who can find such a man.
-- Lana Turner The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein "Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored..." (Herman Melville, Rincon de la Victoria When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't
have done.
-- Malcolm Forbes This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes
time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.
-- Fred Astaire The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich Rincon de la Victoria
Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay "One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. Rincon de la Victoria "There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips." (Elsa Lanchester) The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
-- Albert Einstein If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein Rincon de la Victoria
He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
-- Publilius Syrus Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn "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 Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a
thing to be acheived.
-- William Jennings Bryant I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the
calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
-- Mark Twain Rincon de la Victoria The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to
heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need
more supervision.
-- Lynn Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
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Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavours to live the life which
one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
-- Henry David Thoreau "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, Rincon de la Victoria "I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) "The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only th None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really
lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.
-- Herman Melville Rincon de la Victoria
If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
day into your answers.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke "In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat." (Robert Byrne) Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov Rincon de la Victoria Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that
no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
-- Paul Dirac In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson Rincon de la Victoria
"By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes Rincon de la Victoria Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents "Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) Rincon de la Victoria
"All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) "One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) Rincon de la Victoria A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde What's new? Most of my wife. The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
-- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 Rincon de la Victoria
Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) Rincon de la Victoria "The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford Rincon de la Victoria
"Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves
beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
-- Al Rogers, Global SchoolHouse Netw A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
-- Buke Ellington Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
him.
-- Rich Little Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III Rincon de la Victoria Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) [You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley Rincon de la Victoria
