Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) "Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) "Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) Organisations Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford "Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) Beginning in February 1976 your assistance benefits will be discontinued ... Reason: it has been
reported to our office that you expired on January 1, 1976.
-- excerpt from a letter, Illinois Depart Organisations
Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia "The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than
the procreation of children.
-- Thornton Wilder Organisations Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein Organisations
When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde Organisations A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine 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 Organisations
Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
-- Mae West Organisations Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. Organisations
To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they
are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
-- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man "An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid." (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th earl of) Organisations Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the
custom of shaving.
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur Organisations
The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-- ee cummings Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
-- B.F. Skinner I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back.
-- Henny Youngman It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing. Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings Organisations "I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear ... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived." (Rabbi H I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau Organisations
A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door
and just visit now and then.
-- Katharine Hepburn The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 Organisations "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house
as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
-- Homer, Odyssey, ninth century Organisations
The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw "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) "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
-- Al Bernstein The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy Organisations You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde Organisations
The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
-- Gloria Leonard Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) "My daughter has never forgiven me. for what, I don't know, because for years, she won't speak to me. She blackens my name in the press and makes me think abortion is an excellent idea." (Klaus Kinsk Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with
the powerful, not to be neutral.
-- Paulo Freire Organisations A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is
something everybody believes, except the person who made it.
-- Albert Einstein, attributed "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman Organisations
And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses "Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) "Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." (Gertrude Stein) I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln Organisations The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning
there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have
people all If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel Organisations
Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above
weakness In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops
were side by side in the Italian village of Cremona. First were the Amatis, and outside their shop
hung To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation.
-- Latin Proverb The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue.
-- Anonymous It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw Organisations Guide to understanding a net.addict's day:
Slow day: didn't have much to do, so spent three hours on usenet.
Busy day: managed to work in three hours of usenet.
Bad day: barely squeezed in three ho "A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban Organisations
