Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford "Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) "I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear ... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived." (Rabbi H A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My
answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer
to that would be Bohuslav 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 If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne Bohuslav
"It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical
deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
-- Albert Einstein Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Bohuslav "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx Bohuslav
May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm
upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in
the palm Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin "I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio." (Joan Rivers) What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat
guy in the third row exists?
-- Woody Allen Bohuslav Guide to understanding a net.addict's day:
Slow day: didn't have much to do, so spent three hours on usenet.
Busy day: managed to work in three hours of usenet.
Bad day: barely squeezed in three ho Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
-- Karl Wallenda Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous Bohuslav
Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great Bohuslav If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
it.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Bohuslav
"Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the
calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
-- Mark Twain To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a
holding pattern over Philadelphia.
-- Judith Viorst Bohuslav I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for
half the money.
-- Arthur Godfrey They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra Bohuslav
There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
-- Oscar Wilde Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson 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 "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Bohuslav We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in
a car he sticks his head out the window.
-- Steve Bluestone The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue.
-- Anonymous Bohuslav
Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you
don't know. He knows now that he doesn't know. Last year, he didn't know that.
-- Bill Parcels, New Engla Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Bohuslav It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson Bohuslav
The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
- Robert Orben The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow "In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) Bohuslav Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them
down people's throats.
-- Howard Aiken "Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wit "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Bohuslav
Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does
not change his mind.
-- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
-- Joseph Addison This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Bohuslav "I should reproach him for not giving us enough evidence." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970, what he would say to God if they 'met') When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life
of another.
-- Helen Keller I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen Bohuslav
"I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) 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 University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song Bohuslav I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn "I put on an act sometimes, and people think I'm insensitive. Really, it's like a kind of armor because I'm too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I' Bohuslav
"Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton 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 Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke Bohuslav To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Go away...I'm alright.
-- H. G. Wells, dying words Bohuslav
