Sveriges Television - The two largest TV-channels in Sweden. Owned by the state.
The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
-- Joseph Addison "What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux." (Thomas Pynchon) Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery Television The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard Icky icky icky icky fKANG zoop-boing n zowzyin...
-- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes Television
"Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too.
When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing
extraordinary Television blah "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show 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 Television
"It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe "And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
-- Henry James The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell Television Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
-- Rita Rudner Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on
a date.
-- Caroline Rhea Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra Television
When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) "Think off-center." (George Carlin) He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec "In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) Television 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 Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you
together, but do so with all your heart.
-- Marcus Aurelius blah "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Television
When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them
down people's throats.
-- Howard Aiken Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe I tried a mail order bride, once, but she was damaged in the mail, and I had to return the unused part for my full refund. Television Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) Television
I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken "Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward "Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) Television Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. Television
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 Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you
have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.
-- Aldous Huxley Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) No other success can compensate for failure in the home.
-- David O. McKay, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Advice to parents at General Conference of he
LDS Church, April, 1964 If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw Television "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde Television
"When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have
to shave twice a day.
-- Adlai Stevenson When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked
me in the cellar.
-- Anonymous Television Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
-- Albert Einstein And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder Television
With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
-- Henry James 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 You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's
arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
-- Jonathan Carroll, Outside Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward Television One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby
see only a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney and continue on their way.
-- Vincent Van Gogh It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Television
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 Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. Television "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "This is the first age that's paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one." (Arthur C. Clarke) Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. Television
Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered." (Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom) I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department
store and he asked for my autograph.
-- Shirley Temple Black "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Television Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
-- Red Buttons I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
-- Will Rogers Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos Television
