blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover 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 I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman Svalbard and Jan Mayen "I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is
the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be
cr "We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Svalbard and Jan Mayen
Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran "I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln Svalbard and Jan Mayen I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
car.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker 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 It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous Svalbard and Jan Mayen
Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.
-- Tom Robbins A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
-- Mae West I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu Svalbard and Jan Mayen Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage,
he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it.
-- Helen Roland "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Svalbard and Jan Mayen
The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
-- Ambrose Bierce All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe 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 Not to anticipate is already to moan.
-- Leonardo da Vinci Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison Svalbard and Jan Mayen Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the
opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
-- Oscar W "College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau Svalbard and Jan Mayen
Man and wife make one fool. I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde They were doing a full back shot of me in a swimsuit and I thought, Oh my God, I have to be so
brave. See, every woman hates herself from behind.
-- Cindy Crawford, supermodel Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. Svalbard and Jan Mayen There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how
to make it interesting.
-- Milton Berle, when called to the microphone at the 2nd Annual Comedians Hal I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco Svalbard and Jan Mayen
The man with the best job in the country is the Vice President. All he has to do is get up every
morning and say, "How's the President?"
-- Will Rogers There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!
-- Calvin When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is
when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.
-- Marcel Achard The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
time "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) Svalbard and Jan Mayen If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
-- Rory Bremner Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle Svalbard and Jan Mayen
Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if
he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre Svalbard and Jan Mayen The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing. Svalbard and Jan Mayen
We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
-- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln In the end, everything is a gag.
- Charlie Chaplin If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards "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 Svalbard and Jan Mayen For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf "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 It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain Svalbard and Jan Mayen
Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright "I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower."
"Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!"
-- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" Svalbard and Jan Mayen Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones
you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in
your And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Svalbard and Jan Mayen
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
freedom.
-- Albert Einstein A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer Svalbard and Jan Mayen Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) Svalbard and Jan Mayen
It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.
- Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep
up with software demands If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce Svalbard and Jan Mayen "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted
in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism.
-- Heidi Hartmann, The Unha Svalbard and Jan Mayen
