"The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison Translation Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and
tomorrow aint as bad as it seems.
-- Billy Joel Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on
tormenting the generations to come.
-- Montesquieu Translation
Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other
friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things:
and in that When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen Translation A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw Translation
A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( "Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of g My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. Translation Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Translation
Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and
cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
-- Tom Robbins "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous Translation "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) "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..." ( For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne Translation
No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) Translation "Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
-- Woodrow Wyatt He who laughs last didn't get it.
-- Helen Giangregorio Translation
Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
-- Rita Rudner To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation.
-- Latin Proverb "It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe "By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) Translation Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it.
-- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln Translation
"The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person that loves you
enough chance to love you enough.
-- Dinah Shore We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Translation "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) ...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) Translation
I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.
-- Mark Twain All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara Translation There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good
marriage
-- Martin Luther 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 Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf Translation
Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez "There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the
advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first.
-- Benjamin Franklin Translation You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik "Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) Translation
Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are
difficult.
-- Lucius Anneaus Seneca Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other
friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things:
and in that Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways
to be, you know that there are...
-- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric Translation No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Translation
I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were
reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing,
and Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw Translation Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin "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) Translation
