Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
-- Vladimir Nabokov Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain "Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim
to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire.
-- Gen. George Seredyna Buda "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) Seredyna Buda
I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain Correction: Instead of being arrested, as we stated, for kicking his wife down a flight of stairs and hurling a lighted kerosene lamp after her, the Rev. James P. Wellman died unmarried four years ago An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf "I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Seredyna Buda "I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple Seredyna Buda
We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not
know what to create.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu Seredyna Buda "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender Seredyna Buda
If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at
the same time.
- Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples'
decisions for them?
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) Seredyna Buda Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage,
he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it.
-- Helen Roland To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi Seredyna Buda
Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwile careers in the
street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack
of u >From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea--written in red on every
beachhead form Australia to Tokyo--There is no substitute for victory!
-- General Douglas MacArthur The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute
for life.
-- Andrew Brown If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) Seredyna Buda Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating
influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the
commun Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Seredyna Buda
If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other
is ready.
-- Henry David Thoreau Seredyna Buda "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 "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous
and dreadful.
-- Samuel Johnson Seredyna Buda
Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde Seredyna Buda "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Seredyna Buda
The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their
powers as a State depend.
-- Benjamin Disraeli I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin Seredyna Buda "Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a
minute, it's longer than any hour. That is relativity.
-- Albert Einstein Seredyna Buda
Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a
philosopher.
- Socrates Seredyna Buda "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous Seredyna Buda
Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter Seredyna Buda I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and
members of the Senate.
-- Dan Quayle, Former Vice-President "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup Seredyna Buda
blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady
in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me.
-- Dick Martin "In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat." (Robert Byrne) Seredyna Buda "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. Seredyna Buda
