"Friends are those people who know the words to the song in your heart and sing them back to you when you have forgotten the words." (Anonymous) "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) Nacka Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was
doing spying.
-- Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets for spying, in an i Nacka
"The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman "In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) Nacka What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall "Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Nacka
Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for
themselves.
-- F. Emerson Andrews 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 I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld Nacka The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia Nacka
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 What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper Nacka My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley Nacka
If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty Icky icky icky icky fKANG zoop-boing n zowzyin...
-- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little
plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.
-- Ha Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways
to be, you know that there are...
-- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric Nacka There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to
be a coincidence.
-- Jeremy S. Anderson Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West Nacka
Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
-- Ray Bandy Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan Study men, not historians.
-- Harry Truman He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay Nacka You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker 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 Nacka
A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words
that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
-- Alexander Pope 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 Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
-- Lily Tomlin Nacka The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
definition, is unassailable.
-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 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.
-- Winston Churchill Nacka
Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-- Bill Stern "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) "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action
of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Nacka When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) Nacka
"Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. Nacka Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again.
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show Nacka
"Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
-- Edgar Watson Howe Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 Nacka This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) Nacka
The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein 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 hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Nacka "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the
next meal would come from.
-- Peter F. Drucker "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) Nacka
