Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as
saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball.
-- Deborah Tan Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for
themselves.
-- F. Emerson Andrews "The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) "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 This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review Mlyniv "For others do I wait ... for higher ones, stronger ones, more triumphant ones, merrier ones, for such as are built squarely in body and soul: laughing lions must come." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Mlyniv
To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
-- Francis Crawford I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-- Gilda Radner If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils "My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go." (Oscar Wilde, his last recorded words) "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) Mlyniv Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa Mlyniv
I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that
can be shot when it breaks down.
-- Russell Baker Mlyniv "The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is n I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) Mlyniv
"Every now and then say, 'What the fu(c)k.' 'What the fu(c)k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future." (Curtis Armstrong, Risky Business, 1983) Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-
inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least
expect i "Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) Mlyniv "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
-- Ken Dodd "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) Mlyniv
"In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) "Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Mlyniv "Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. Mlyniv
Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
chastisement.
-- Ernest Dimnet Tear open packet, unfold and use.
-- Directions on moist towelette package Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.
- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life Mlyniv In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde .. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over
myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long
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Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard Mlyniv "Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) "One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca Mlyniv
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 Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder "When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) 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 It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would
have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I
didn' Mlyniv 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 The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko My other wife is beautiful. Mlyniv
"He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) "I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) "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) "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire Mlyniv If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov "All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) Mlyniv
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
-- Stanislaw J. Lem Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton Mlyniv "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards Mlyniv
I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was
doing spying.
-- Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets for spying, in an i This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes
time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.
-- Fred Astaire Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis "The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." (George Bernar Mlyniv Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are
capable of being.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing
changes and yet everything is completely different.
-- Aldous Huxley Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
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