"Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Grodnenskaya Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple Grodnenskaya
Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents "Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx Grodnenskaya "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue.
-- Anonymous Grodnenskaya
Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of
our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
-- John Adams We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi Health food makes me sick.
-- Calvin Trillin The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not,
the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms
with Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown Grodnenskaya If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
-- Carl Zwanzig Grodnenskaya
Honor lies in honest toil.
-- Grover Cleveland "I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio." (Joan Rivers) "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
-- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard Grodnenskaya It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-
inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least
expect i If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
-- Lily Tomlin Grodnenskaya
May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves
great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates
the Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not
impress the neighbors as being very much.
-- Zora Neale Hurston History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein Grodnenskaya 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 When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain
terrible.
-- Jean Kerr Grodnenskaya
Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl "Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected..." (Chuck Jones) Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately
becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in
those tiny toil All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France Grodnenskaya We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer Grodnenskaya
Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
-- Robert Browning "It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing." (Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises) Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to
benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.
-- Ralph Mars Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own
language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Grodnenskaya There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer 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 A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere Grodnenskaya
I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they
study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.
-- Gerald Early, writer, baseball do Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
-- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers 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 "Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde Grodnenskaya Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
-- Mother Teresa "The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) Grodnenskaya
Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
-- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) Grodnenskaya If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde Grodnenskaya
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature
machine gun.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman Grodnenskaya Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
can't read.
-- Frank Zappa Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer Grodnenskaya
A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman
is one who can find such a man.
-- Lana Turner I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
-- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" "My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go." (Oscar Wilde, his last recorded words) "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils Grodnenskaya I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
-- Jules Renard However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Grodnenskaya
