The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre In the blithe days of honeymoon,
With Kate's allurements smitten,
I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon,
And call'd her dearest kitten.
But now my kitten's grown a cat,
And cross like other wives.
"I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear ... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived." (Rabbi H Astrakhanskaya Oblast It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not
allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating,
stealing, "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Astrakhanskaya Oblast
Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous 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.
-- No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty Astrakhanskaya Oblast The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson Astrakhanskaya Oblast
If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you
will become a philosopher.
-- Socrates Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth "In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." (Eric Hoffer) Astrakhanskaya Oblast To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to
finish without knowing what you have written.
-- Jean Jacques Rousseau Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What
do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came
back with ano Astrakhanskaya Oblast
Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins Astrakhanskaya Oblast "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you
don't know. He knows now that he doesn't know. Last year, he didn't know that.
-- Bill Parcels, New Engla Astrakhanskaya Oblast
"A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller Good friends are good for your health.
-- Irwin Sarason Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein "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) Astrakhanskaya Oblast You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford In the end, everything is a gag.
- Charlie Chaplin And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning Astrakhanskaya Oblast
"To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had
never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
-- Orison Swett Marden "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) Astrakhanskaya Oblast "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of
genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Astrakhanskaya Oblast
"Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!
-- Dr. Strangelove Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell Astrakhanskaya Oblast A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to
us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
-- Jeff Raskin Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-- Anonymous Astrakhanskaya Oblast
If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it,
Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me
de "I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so Amer Astrakhanskaya Oblast People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
-- Woody Allen I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and
members of the Senate.
-- Dan Quayle, Former Vice-President Astrakhanskaya Oblast
The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce Astrakhanskaya Oblast Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) Astrakhanskaya Oblast
Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie Astrakhanskaya Oblast To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent...
-- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported
in a contemporary "American Scholar" Astrakhanskaya Oblast
The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the
purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
-- Anatole France "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
-- Buck Henry Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
-- Phillip Brooks Astrakhanskaya Oblast "My daughter has never forgiven me. for what, I don't know, because for years, she won't speak to me. She blackens my name in the press and makes me think abortion is an excellent idea." (Klaus Kinsk Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up
our minds to walk boldly through them.
-- Orison Swett Marden Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman Astrakhanskaya Oblast
