The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
a leg.
-- Abraham Lincoln "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
cough.
-- Pearl Williams Znamyanka "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) "An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid." (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th earl of) My other wife is beautiful. Znamyanka
"Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) "What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature." (Francois Marie Ar Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler Znamyanka A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.
-- John Murray 'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings Znamyanka
"Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Steven Wright "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) "We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe Znamyanka "Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-- Gilda Radner "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) Znamyanka
Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and
tomorrow aint as bad as it seems.
-- Billy Joel Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron Znamyanka There is more to life than increasing its speed.
-- Gandhi The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) Znamyanka
Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) Goodbye, Everybody!
-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence Znamyanka We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) "Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Znamyanka
I tried a mail order bride, once, but she was damaged in the mail, and I had to return the unused part for my full refund. "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) Znamyanka "Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur Znamyanka
I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
a leg.
-- Abraham Lincoln I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin "The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) Znamyanka Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw Znamyanka
In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken "Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you
will become a philosopher.
-- Socrates If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.
-- Mark Twain Znamyanka In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves
beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
-- Al Rogers, Global SchoolHouse Netw A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard "I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real senten Znamyanka
I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana 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 "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Znamyanka If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 "Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) Znamyanka
Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
-- G. K. Chesterton If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) 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 Znamyanka "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? Znamyanka
"I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) "The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner "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 Znamyanka Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins Znamyanka