"Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them
down people's throats.
-- Howard Aiken Chuvash Republic The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Chuvash Republic
I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
-- H. L. Mencken Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give. -- Cass Daley "Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Chuvash Republic 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 No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni Chuvash Republic
In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
-- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith Chuvash Republic 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 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 A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is
something everybody believes, except the person who made it.
-- Albert Einstein, attributed Chuvash Republic
Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
-- Satchel Paige Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does
come, we no longer exist.
-- Epicurus "Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation." (Larry Flynt) Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard Chuvash Republic Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb Chuvash Republic
I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.
- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 Chuvash Republic All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle
enough of them.
-- Flannery O'Connor Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of
poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.
-- John Cage Chuvash Republic
If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
-- Lily Tomlin Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) Chuvash Republic The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard Chuvash Republic
All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" "For others do I wait ... for higher ones, stronger ones, more triumphant ones, merrier ones, for such as are built squarely in body and soul: laughing lions must come." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein Chuvash Republic To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your
girdle when your hips stick.
-- Ogden Nash They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to
get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
-- Billie Holliday Chuvash Republic
It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass
produced with unskilled labor.
-- Wernher von Braun Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more
they possess.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke Chuvash Republic It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers "Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it;
whenever you're right, shut up.
-- Ogden Nash Chuvash Republic
Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James "Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley "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 "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Chuvash Republic "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) "The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) "Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) Chuvash Republic
"Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
chastisement.
-- Ernest Dimnet "I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
-- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor Chuvash Republic "I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats." (Woody Allen, in regard to the KKK) Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.
-- John Murray The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted
in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism.
-- Heidi Hartmann, The Unha Chuvash Republic
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 When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find
that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our
pain This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous Chuvash Republic Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. Chuvash Republic
