May you never leave your marriage alive. Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov Vitebsk For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it
doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever
sea The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill Vitebsk
Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway.
-- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man
will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
-- Henry Ford Vitebsk Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to
me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
-- Lucille Ball Vitebsk
When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall
looking frantic.
-- Steven Wright If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. "Drugs have done a lot of good. A lot of good songs have been written. 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. 'Dark Side of the Moon?' 100 dead kids. At least that many were conceived by people listening If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers Vitebsk You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry
that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
-- Dale Carnegie Vitebsk
A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd Vitebsk We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils "I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou Vitebsk
"Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
cough.
-- Pearl Williams Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan Vitebsk "Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) "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 The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Vitebsk
Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me!
-- Henry Ford Women's liberationists spread the word that...the only peaceful family is one in which either the
wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous.
-- R. Emmett Tyell, The Liberal Crack-Up, 1984 Vitebsk What's new? Most of my wife. Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem
mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's
chara Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through
self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
-- Helen Keller Vitebsk
The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. "Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) Vitebsk What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
-- Chekhov "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) Vitebsk
I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can
only read the title.
-- Virginia Woolf blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it;
whenever you're right, shut up.
-- Ogden Nash Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber Vitebsk "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) Vitebsk
"Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
pure ignorance?
-- Holbrook Jackson In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) Vitebsk "Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.
-- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War Vitebsk
To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu "Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation." (Larry Flynt) He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln Vitebsk Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George bernard Shaw Vitebsk
My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
-- Pablo Picasso I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx Vitebsk "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
-- Edgar Watson Howe "Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) Vitebsk
