Magda's Bellydancing - Contains explanation of terms, picture gallery and many links to Middle-Eastern music.
...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
-- Anonymous "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 "To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) Middle Eastern Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine "In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
-- Virginia Woolf Middle Eastern
Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to
us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
-- Jeff Raskin "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) 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 "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 Wilhelm Nietzsche) Middle Eastern I'll sleep when I'm dead.
- Warren Zevon "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Middle Eastern
Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
-- Phillip Brooks "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker Middle Eastern Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.
-- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the
House Bank scandal An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry Middle Eastern
You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that
M&Ms really do melt in your hand...
-- Peter Oakley A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who
marries a man to reform him.
-- Elbert Hubbard To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Middle Eastern "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) If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
-- Chekhov I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
- Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable
statues Middle Eastern
Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
-- Robert Benchley We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person
perfectly.
-- Anonymous Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up
something appropriate and do it.
-- E. W. Howe Facts are the enemy of truth.
- Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha Middle Eastern You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler "Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." (Dave Barry) There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's
age.
-- Modern Maturity Middle Eastern
A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference
between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I
don't know and "Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) Middle Eastern You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
- Bill Hirst History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford Middle Eastern
My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy Establishing yourself, furnishing a house, building up a comfortable existence, and having that menace hanging over your head all the time - no, I prefer to live in hotels, cafés, just passing through Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. Middle Eastern One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do
what he was afraid he couldn't do.
-- Henry Ford Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. Middle Eastern
My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate,
the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
-- Rainer Maria Ril A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
-- Mae West The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
-- Ambrose Bierce "We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Middle Eastern Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford Middle Eastern
Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
automobile.
-- Billy Sunday I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics a Middle Eastern Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be
paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's
life First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi Middle Eastern
Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find
out how to do it.
-- Theodore Roosevelt When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln Middle Eastern Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
- Sir Winston Churchill 2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time.
-- inside of a Pepsi cap "Whether it is a black cat or a white cat, as long as it can catch the rat, it is a good cat." (Deng Xiao Ping) Middle Eastern
Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper 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 "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford Middle Eastern Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the
marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.
-- Bette Davis Middle Eastern
