The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because
generally they are the same people.
-- G. K. Chesterton "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would not live forever, because
we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live
forever, I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for
half the money.
-- Arthur Godfrey You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra Altaiskiy Kray It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does
not change his mind.
-- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce Altaiskiy Kray
Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
-- Pablo Picasso Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with
the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
-- Cynthia Heimel "Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) "I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w Altaiskiy Kray An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy
contests, but they keep the crowd's attention.
-- Anonymous "Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder Altaiskiy Kray
"He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. Altaiskiy Kray The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute
for life.
-- Andrew Brown "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? Altaiskiy Kray
"Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I
was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper.
-- Smith & Jones Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
-- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon Altaiskiy Kray When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau "I should reproach him for not giving us enough evidence." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970, what he would say to God if they 'met') Altaiskiy Kray
Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan "Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? Altaiskiy Kray I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to
know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.
- Clarence Darrow, In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is
simply one of those things which happen from time to time.
-- Edward P. Tryon A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a
minute, it's longer than any hour. That is relativity.
-- Albert Einstein Altaiskiy Kray
Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes
some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny.
-- George Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family.
-- Navaho saying He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
-- Publilius Syrus Altaiskiy Kray Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
-- Erma Bombeck The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing
changes and yet everything is completely different.
-- Aldous Huxley You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra Altaiskiy Kray
Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall
looking frantic.
-- Steven Wright 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 I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the
advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first.
-- Benjamin Franklin Altaiskiy Kray The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
-- Virginia Woolf Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Altaiskiy Kray
I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.... This is an ex-parrot.
-- John Cleese, Monty Python, British comedy television show It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde Facts are the enemy of truth.
- Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha Altaiskiy Kray The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline
luggage.
-- Mark Russell An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie Altaiskiy Kray
There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one
of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
-- George Bernard Shaw Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power
so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics Altaiskiy Kray "The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) Altaiskiy Kray
"Drugs have done a lot of good. A lot of good songs have been written. 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. 'Dark Side of the Moon?' 100 dead kids. At least that many were conceived by people listening Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
-- Kenneth H. Blanchard "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck Altaiskiy Kray I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur "I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
wastes to Third Wo Altaiskiy Kray
Good friends are good for your health.
-- Irwin Sarason Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown "Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan Altaiskiy Kray There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
- Paul Erdos Altaiskiy Kray
