The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. 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 Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Larisa "Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright Larisa
Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
-- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President 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 Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ Larisa "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
-- Anonymous Larisa
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are
capable of being.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-- Dorothy Parker The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
-- Maya Angelou Larisa Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree
to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full
of grac "When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Larisa
Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to
learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
-- Michel de Montaigne "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
-- Shane Leslie Larisa He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate,
the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
-- Rainer Maria Ril Larisa
"One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) If you never want to see a man again, say, "I love you, I want to marry you, I want to have children..." - they leave skid marks. -- Rita Rudner Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is
thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.
-- Henry Wadsworth Lo 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,
Larisa Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind
and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the
coachin Larisa
"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) Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
-- John Adams, dying words Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. 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.
-- Crowf Larisa This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes
time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.
-- Fred Astaire "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how
to make it interesting.
-- Milton Berle, when called to the microphone at the 2nd Annual Comedians Hal Larisa
Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer Larisa It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one Larisa
Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and
illiterate sport fishermen.
-- P. J. O'Rourke "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) Guys are lucky because they get to grow mustaches. I wish I could. It's like having a little pet for
your face.
-- Anita Wise We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
-- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 Larisa All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and
joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not
as Larisa
We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H.L. Mencken The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley
Temple could do it at the age of four.
-- Katharine Hepburn In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
-- Helen Rowland When you're away, I'm restless, lonely
Wretched, bored, dejected; only
here's the rub, my darling dear,
I feel the same when you are here.
-- Samuel Hoffenstein Larisa They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
-- Anonymous Guys are lucky because they get to grow mustaches. I wish I could. It's like having a little pet for
your face.
-- Anita Wise "If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) Larisa
There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
-- Neils Bohr When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan Larisa Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and
tomorrow aint as bad as it seems.
-- Billy Joel You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen Larisa
The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
-- Robert M. Pirsig "The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only th It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
-- Emiliano Zapata Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green Larisa The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of
them, it's considered to be your style.
-- Fred Astaire We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Larisa
