It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain
terrible.
-- Jean Kerr "We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) The nourishment is palatable.
-- Millard Fillmore, dying words If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I Popasna It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is
the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be
cr When you're away, I'm restless, lonely
Wretched, bored, dejected; only
here's the rub, my darling dear,
I feel the same when you are here.
-- Samuel Hoffenstein A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire Popasna
And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from
both sides.
-- Margaret Thatcher Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Popasna "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the
marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.
-- Bette Davis A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Popasna
It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin "That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three
children and no theories.
-- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester Popasna Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
newspapers.
-- Thomas Jefferson "Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) Popasna
If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet
not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
-- François de La Rouch I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
car.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi Popasna If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker "Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but
as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!"
-- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James Popasna
"It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're
the boss."
-- Anonymous "I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George Popasna Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy "Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod Popasna
"This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness
are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser
tha "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde Popasna It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves
great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates
the Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain
as marijuana...The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two, but can't
remember what "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) Popasna
Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
-- Margaret Mead We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Popasna Just buy a box of popcorn and a Coca-Cola and sit back and watch.
-- James Carville, Clinton advisor, offering advice for Democrats on the term-limits vote in the
House "I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward Popasna
Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
-- Christopher Morley "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 Popasna 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 I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain Popasna
"I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
-- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.
-- Wayne Gretzky Popasna I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five
isn't bad.
-- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. Popasna
"All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) "The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and
blows up the bonfire.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld 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 Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Popasna Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb Popasna
Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.
-- John Murray I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde Popasna "Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) "It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been
widely regarded as a bad move.
-- Douglas Adams Popasna
