A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig
deep into the actual and get something out of that - this doubtless is the right way to live.
-- H "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) Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld Araba Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived
in this century. I didn't live in this century.
-- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Araba
"Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
-- Helen Rowland It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw "The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
-- George Saunders - last words Araba Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment.
-- Voltaire "Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) Araba
Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain "Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat
guy in the third row exists?
-- Woody Allen In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken Araba Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 "Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat Araba
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 "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good
results: drag behind car through puddles, blow-dry on roofrack.
-- Laundry instructions on a shirt blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Araba Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed.
They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position.
-- John Hogan, Commonwealth If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
-- Johnny Carson Araba
It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves
great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates
the "Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
-- Henry James "Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Araba It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.
-- Tom Robbins My other wife is beautiful. "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) Araba
If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet
enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes "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 The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or
theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
-- George Santayana Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana Araba Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez Araba
"He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni Araba We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The
rest is trust.
-- Nanette Newman, British actress Araba
Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson "If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you t Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing
they die earlier.
-- H. L. Mencken If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Araba If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the
second, "For my best friend."
-- Anonymous Araba
Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy "When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa Araba When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers "Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth Araba
Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted
by a little physical antipathy.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche "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) And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery Araba The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
-- Douglas Adams First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi Araba
Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-- Carl Gustav Jung In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos Araba Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
- George Washington Carver Araba
