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There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins 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 "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 Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
-- Ernest Hemingway Brest "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein Brest
We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words "I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free." (Walker Percy, The Moviegoer) Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature
intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times
worse tha Brest The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I
was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper.
-- Smith & Jones "If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) Brest
Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is
merely a good excuse not to play football.
-- Fran Lebowitz Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
ages as much as 20 years.
-- Anonymous A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
him.
-- Rich Little The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton Brest "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali Brest
You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's
arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
-- Jonathan Carroll, Outside blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu Brest "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 The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 Brest
I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without
feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex,
the ugl "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin Brest Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Brest
"No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
-- Francois-Auguste Rodin, when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues "Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac Brest I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa Brest
There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
-- Alphonse Allais People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only
make $500,000.
-- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain
terrible.
-- Jean Kerr Brest Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the
source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity,
ign The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain Brest
Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl could want in her life, except for good
taste in men!
-- Wedding Toast "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
-- George Santayana Brest "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet Brest
"What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
-- Hermione Gingold We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
-- Erica Jong Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley Brest If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet
enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) Brest
"God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
-- Booker T. Washington As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust
there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
-- Andre Norton "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Brest "I've never let my school interfere with my education." (Mark Twain) Spinster: A bachelor's wife. When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Brest
Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the
instrument plays itself.
-- Johann Sebastian Bach Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
-- Ray Bandy In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how
many can get through to you.
-- Mortimer J. Adler Brest "Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it." (Colin Powell) "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference
between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I
don't know and Brest
