Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
-- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein Amurskaya Oblast The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton Amurskaya Oblast
Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer "The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting Amurskaya Oblast Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Amurskaya Oblast
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 As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be
paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's
life "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
- Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable
statues Amurskaya Oblast And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. 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 Amurskaya Oblast
"The feminists used to say that chivalry and ladyhood were ways of keeping women down and preventing them from standing toe to toe with the guys. Now you've got a lot of women saying that if a guy is 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.
-- A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning Amurskaya Oblast "The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
-- Lily Tomlin Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the
opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
-- Oscar W Amurskaya Oblast
Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway.
-- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
-- Robert M. Pirsig Amurskaya Oblast Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
what you are getting.
-- Anonymous "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin Amurskaya Oblast
Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
-- Christopher Morley Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) Amurskaya Oblast "Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber "It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality." (Francois Sagan) Amurskaya Oblast
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to
me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
-- Lucille Ball The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
-- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard Amurskaya Oblast "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) "The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) "One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Amurskaya Oblast
Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
-- Phillip Brooks They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to
run his, either.
-- Anonymous "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi Amurskaya Oblast We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Amurskaya Oblast
Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's
arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
-- Jonathan Carroll, Outside Amurskaya Oblast No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that
M&Ms really do melt in your hand...
-- Peter Oakley When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval
of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
-- Henry Miller Amurskaya Oblast
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce "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 If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words Amurskaya Oblast We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier "It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes Amurskaya Oblast
The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
-- Oscar Wilde Amurskaya Oblast I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
car.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines
staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you
ask th A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
-- Buke Ellington Amurskaya Oblast
