I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. Western Mittelland Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
-- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) Western Mittelland
"If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
-- Ralph Marston Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
- James Stephens Western Mittelland In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore
exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.
-- Slavoj Zizek Western Mittelland
There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck Western Mittelland When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment... it's
exciting to have a real crisis on your hands.
-- Margaret Thatcher, on the Falklands Conflict If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.
-- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War "No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, g Western Mittelland
A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana 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 They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck Western Mittelland When Baby's cries grew hard to bear I popped him in the Frigidaire. I never would have done so if
I'd known that he'd be frozen stiff. My wife said, "George, I'm so unhappy! Our darling's now
comple If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature
intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times
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Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-- Samuel Butler Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde Western Mittelland The child is the father of the man.
-- William Wordsworth Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin "See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and Western Mittelland
Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) Jake liked his women the way he liked his kiwi fruit: sweet yet tart, firm-fleshed yet yielding to the
touch, and covered with short brown fuzzy hair.
-- Jonathan S. Haas Western Mittelland "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One
looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our
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"The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) 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 English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) Western Mittelland Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
-- George Bernard Shaw When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
-- Buckminster Western Mittelland
Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman "Think off-center." (George Carlin) You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde Western Mittelland A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
reputation.
-- Oscar Wilde Western Mittelland
If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker When Baby's cries grew hard to bear I popped him in the Frigidaire. I never would have done so if
I'd known that he'd be frozen stiff. My wife said, "George, I'm so unhappy! Our darling's now
comple Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson Western Mittelland There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
-- Neils Bohr Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
-- Oscar Wilde Western Mittelland
For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely
unnatural condition.
-- Robert Briffault Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl could want in her life, except for good
taste in men!
-- Wedding Toast I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to
know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.
- Clarence Darrow, The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain
terrible.
-- Jean Kerr Western Mittelland "The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf Western Mittelland
"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) "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
-- Herbert Westren Turnbull Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III Western Mittelland Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
ages as much as 20 years.
-- Anonymous Western Mittelland
