Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of
mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
-- Rita Mae Brown Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer Bryanskaya Oblast "Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details." (Andy Warhol, America, 1985) The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Bryanskaya Oblast
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 Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) Bryanskaya Oblast Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. "To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) Bryanskaya Oblast
America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
-- Ambrose Bierce Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte Bryanskaya Oblast Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) Bryanskaya Oblast
What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy Guide to understanding a net.addict's day:
Slow day: didn't have much to do, so spent three hours on usenet.
Busy day: managed to work in three hours of usenet.
Bad day: barely squeezed in three ho The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
-- Ernest Hemingway "Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) Bryanskaya Oblast The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Bryanskaya Oblast
It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan Bryanskaya Oblast The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
-- Niels Bohr There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the
instrument plays itself.
-- Johann Sebastian Bach "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Bryanskaya Oblast
If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger Bryanskaya Oblast The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Bryanskaya Oblast
Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. "Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain Bryanskaya Oblast Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.
-- American Proverb Bryanskaya Oblast
"Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte "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 Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Bryanskaya Oblast I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
-- Douglas Adams "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') "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) Bryanskaya Oblast
When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his
life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.
-- Francois Cavanna "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) He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Borge Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.
- Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep
up with software demands Bryanskaya Oblast A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
-- George Clemenceau Bryanskaya Oblast
May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx "People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries Bryanskaya Oblast Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of
your life.
-- Abbie M. Dale Bryanskaya Oblast
He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) Bryanskaya Oblast Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all
over it and put your name at the top.
-- English Professor, Ohio University Bryanskaya Oblast
