Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill "The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) "Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) Nadvirna blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz Nadvirna
"Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
-- Publilius Syrus Nadvirna The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge "No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree." (Lee Rudolph) Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. Nadvirna
"Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
- George Washington Carver I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't
certain we knew better.
-- George Bird Evans "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) Nadvirna "I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers Nadvirna
Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard In the end, everything is a gag.
- Charlie Chaplin All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the
influences under which he incurred the disorder... It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the
physician As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are
certain, they do not refer to reality.
-- Albert Einstein Nadvirna If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
-- James McNeill Whistler It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx Nadvirna
Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been
all along.
-- Madeleine L'Engle Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca Nadvirna There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a
natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
-- Samuel Johnson The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell Nadvirna
Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan "Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it." (Colin Powell) How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create
it herself.
- Anais Nin Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing
matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.
-- Amy Bloom "If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) Nadvirna To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France 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 Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington Nadvirna
"The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) "College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What
do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came
back with ano Nadvirna "One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Nadvirna
My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or
theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
-- George Santayana Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and
blows up the bonfire.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Nadvirna The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra) Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle
enough of them.
-- Flannery O'Connor Nadvirna
I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in
accordance with the dictates of reason.
-- Oscar Wilde "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be
built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
-- Anne S Nadvirna We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
-- Isaac B. Singer The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) Nadvirna
Tear open packet, unfold and use.
-- Directions on moist towelette package My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. 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 believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Mark Twain Nadvirna "The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. "If I were still a critic, I would loathe knowing the person I was writing about. There's enough of an incestuous relationship between subject and writer." (Manny Farber, American film theorist) Nadvirna
Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I ask
is a chance."
-- Anon. Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman Tear open packet, unfold and use.
-- Directions on moist towelette package Nadvirna "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up
our minds to walk boldly through them.
-- Orison Swett Marden Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of
fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality
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