There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X Brestskaya I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald Brestskaya
A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Guitry Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy Brestskaya "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman Brestskaya
Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
-- Kenneth H. Blanchard And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley 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 Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
-- Arthur C. Coxe Brestskaya A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your
girdle when your hips stick.
-- Ogden Nash There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
definition, is unassailable.
-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 Brestskaya
We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. the social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for
all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation.
-- Peter The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb Brestskaya Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) Brestskaya
The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted
by a little physical antipathy.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
definition, is unassailable.
-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his
cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that
Uncl Brestskaya The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous Brestskaya
The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly good I thee endow.
-- Wedding Vow, Book of Common Prayer The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute
for life.
-- Andrew Brown Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. "Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s Brestskaya "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) All you need is love.
-- The Beatles, song title A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) Brestskaya
"What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." "All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) "Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wit "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) "I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George Brestskaya The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
newspapers.
-- Thomas Jefferson Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
- Karl Wallenda Brestskaya
I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words 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 All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery
increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control
futur Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
-- Oscar Wilde Brestskaya Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it,
there will be a fish.
-- Ovid "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. Brestskaya
Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? Facts are the enemy of truth.
- Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac Brestskaya 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 brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does
not stop until you get into the office.
-- Robert Frost We look forward to the time when the power to love of will replace the love of power. Then will our
world know the blessings of peace.
-- William Gladstone Brestskaya
The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
- Bill Hirst Brestskaya Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the
influences under which he incurred the disorder... It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the
physician How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create
it herself.
- Anais Nin Brestskaya
All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review "Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) Brestskaya When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with
the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover,
You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
cough.
-- Pearl Williams When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
-- Clarence Darrow Brestskaya
