A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes Tlumach If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would
be able to endure it.
-- Schopenhauer I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner Tlumach
War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if
he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli "Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) "Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." (Dylan Thomas) This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) Tlumach Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
history.
-- George Bernard Shaw If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx Tlumach
Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
-- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of
suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room.
-- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi Tlumach "I think people resist freedom because they're afraid of the unknown. But it's ironic....That unknown was once very well known. It's where are souls belong....The only solution is to confront them--co "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) Tlumach
The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
-- Ambrose Bierce University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
wastes to Third Wo His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Tlumach The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing
changes and yet everything is completely different.
-- Aldous Huxley Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
-- Roger Babson The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln Tlumach
An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
-- Stanislaw J. Lem You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain Tlumach If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
-- Chekhov "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
-- Brian Pickrell Tlumach
When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval
of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
-- Henry Miller The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute
for life.
-- Andrew Brown "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." (Alexander Pope) Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide Tlumach Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) Tlumach
The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is
thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.
-- Henry Wadsworth Lo What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine Tlumach The telephone company is urging people to *please* not use the telephone unless it is absolutely
necessary in order to keep the lines open for emergency personnel. We'll be right back after this
bre In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce "For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Tlumach
There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good
marriage
-- Martin Luther Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-- Stephen Covey Man is a natural polygamist. He always has one woman leading him by the nose and another
hanging on to his coattails.
-- H. L. Mencken Tlumach your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) "I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower."
"Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!"
-- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" Tlumach
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick "Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. Tlumach I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton "It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books--what other men do not say in whole books." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols) Tlumach
When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with
the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover,
Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
-- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting
married Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
-- Roger Babson Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind
and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the
coachin Tlumach If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) "Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) Tlumach
Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
-- Byrd Baggett Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
-- Henry James "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) Tlumach He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill 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 Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar Tlumach
