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"Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." (Mark Twain) Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle Horepnik "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw "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." Horepnik
Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
pure ignorance?
-- Holbrook Jackson I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call
me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
-- Rebecca West, We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we
can do... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes.
-- Cybi Horepnik "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." "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu Horepnik
"We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
-- Oscar Wilde The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do
its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.
-- Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch Horepnik "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me. -- Dick Martin Horepnik
"If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." (Albert Einstein) I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg "Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours." (Dale "For others do I wait ... for higher ones, stronger ones, more triumphant ones, merrier ones, for such as are built squarely in body and soul: laughing lions must come." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron Horepnik It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton 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 Horepnik
"I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five
isn't bad.
-- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.
-- Tom Robbins "Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) 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 Horepnik "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw Horepnik
To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
-- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more
experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat
soiled or torn? "A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer Horepnik "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot "Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi Horepnik
I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it.
And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.
-- George Bus UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. Horepnik "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
-- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard Horepnik
"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) The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt I just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison Horepnik "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) "All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) Horepnik
The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One
cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the
marvelous str Horepnik 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 The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince Horepnik
The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is
that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one.
-- Anonymous A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby
see only a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney and continue on their way.
-- Vincent Van Gogh "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) Horepnik If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken Horepnik
"If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to
get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
-- Billie Holliday Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
cough.
-- Pearl Williams Horepnik Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain "From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) Horepnik
