Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
-- Libbie Fudim What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crow Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
-- Sigmund Freud "Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation." (Larry Flynt) "The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) Gomel'skaya Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 Gomel'skaya
Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of
them become real as you can.
-- Frank W. Woolworth Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best
to become the best you are capable of becoming.
-- John R. Wooden, Practical Modern Basketball One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
reputation.
-- Oscar Wilde You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room
enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.
-- Fred Allen Health food makes me sick.
-- Calvin Trillin Gomel'skaya "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
him.
-- Rich Little Gomel'skaya
I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or
theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
-- George Santayana What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crow It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should
live honourably.
-- Kant, Immanuel Gomel'skaya The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or
theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
-- George Santayana Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins Gomel'skaya
When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already
were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier. --H.L. Mencken The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein Gomel'skaya Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
-- Ernest Hemingway I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer Gomel'skaya
The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
-- Al Bernstein Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) Gomel'skaya The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni Go away...I'm alright.
-- H. G. Wells, dying words I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Gomel'skaya
To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) "Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it "Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) Gomel'skaya Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) Gomel'skaya
"Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him.
-- Cher Gomel'skaya "The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne Gomel'skaya
"I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Gomel'skaya Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett Gomel'skaya
A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe Jake liked his women the way he liked his kiwi fruit: sweet yet tart, firm-fleshed yet yielding to the
touch, and covered with short brown fuzzy hair.
-- Jonathan S. Haas "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) "That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, 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 Gomel'skaya "I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) Gomel'skaya
Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy 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,
The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko 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 Gomel'skaya When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
-- Buckminster The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston blah blah blah blah blah "This is the way the world ends: not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot) _end]
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The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger Facts are the enemy of truth.
- Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince Gomel'skaya 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 "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous Gomel'skaya
