Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is
merely a good excuse not to play football.
-- Fran Lebowitz "The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only th "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There
are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's
reall Nova Praha "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) Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. Just
flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) Nova Praha
A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in
every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a
brand new ending.
-- Anonymous "I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so Amer Nova Praha A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.
-- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995 Nova Praha
Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me!
-- Henry Ford Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
-- Robert A. Humphrey Nova Praha When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims
of intact ones.
-- Peter DeVries Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to
finish without knowing what you have written.
-- Jean Jacques Rousseau Nova Praha
You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you
can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist.
-- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle Per cubic inch, your current TV set is perhaps the dumbest appliance in your home (and I'm not
even talking about the programs).
-- Nicholas Negroponte Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
-- M. Hirschfield Nova Praha We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce Nova Praha
"This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-- ee cummings In medieval times, people thought that evil spirits could enter a person through an open mouth.
These days they more often leave that way.
-- David Deckert We can say 'Peace on Earth,' we can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have
not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us, then it will not be.
-- Betty Shabazz A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning Nova Praha 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 All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
-- Anonymous "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Nova Praha
"In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) "The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take
what I have to give.
-- Cass Daley "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples'
decisions for them?
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All Nova Praha The child is the father of the man.
-- William Wordsworth Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz 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
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He who laughs last didn't get it.
-- Helen Giangregorio "Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in
opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
-- Sydney Smith We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we
can do... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes.
-- Cybi Nova Praha The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause
we believe to be just.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier. --H.L. Mencken Nova Praha
The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops
were side by side in the Italian village of Cremona. First were the Amatis, and outside their shop
hung "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) 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 It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker Nova Praha "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) "Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife Nova Praha
Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) My other wife is beautiful. The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce 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 "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) Nova Praha "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) "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf Nova Praha
My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger,
as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is
when you r Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Nova Praha Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle "The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb Nova Praha
A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a
minute, it's longer than any hour. That is relativity.
-- Albert Einstein Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost Nova Praha "You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
-- Walt Disney We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle Nova Praha
