Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl "Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if
he finds her.
-- Benjamin Tillett Novi Sanzhary Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork
picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
-- Tom Stoppard Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Novi Sanzhary
Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to
us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
-- Jeff Raskin Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning Novi Sanzhary "In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of
genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Novi Sanzhary
Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up
our minds to walk boldly through them.
-- Orison Swett Marden If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you
a hundre Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles "A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) Novi Sanzhary He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius "When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." (Friedrich Wilhelm Ni "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) Novi Sanzhary
People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba "Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures--in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together." You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was
60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is.
-- Ellen DeGeneres I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! Novi Sanzhary 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 "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't
certain we knew better.
-- George Bird Evans Novi Sanzhary
The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.
-- Mark Twain Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi Novi Sanzhary I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) Novi Sanzhary
"College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf "Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." (Dave Barry) Novi Sanzhary For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
-- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) Novi Sanzhary
All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
-- Anonymous The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) "If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane Novi Sanzhary It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. Novi Sanzhary
It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith "Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard Novi Sanzhary The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal Novi Sanzhary
You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
-- George Saunders - last words Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer 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 Novi Sanzhary Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
-- Anonymous "God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) Novi Sanzhary
"If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh Novi Sanzhary To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 Novi Sanzhary
Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words "Friends are those people who know the words to the song in your heart and sing them back to you when you have forgotten the words." (Anonymous) "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde Novi Sanzhary The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown "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) In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
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