The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
-- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the
first half.
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen Kirovskaya Oblast Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady
in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me.
-- Dick Martin A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous Kirovskaya Oblast
"Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Kirovskaya Oblast "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 Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted.
-- Anonymous We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa Kirovskaya Oblast
The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
-- James McNeill Whistler Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
-- Anonymous Kirovskaya Oblast Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer "A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." (Fred Allen) Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius Kirovskaya Oblast
Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Steven Wright I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in
charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
-- Hen I still live.
-- Daniel Webster, dying words It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they
are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
-- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) Kirovskaya Oblast In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a
thing to be acheived.
-- William Jennings Bryant Kirovskaya Oblast
What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. 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 It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would
have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I
didn' In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley Kirovskaya Oblast May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. "These are days you'll remember." If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony,
remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.
-- Christine Todd, NJ Governor, Whea Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
-- Margaret Mead Kirovskaya Oblast
May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
-- Benjamin Disraeli You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder Kirovskaya Oblast "To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger Kirovskaya Oblast
LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the
influences under which he incurred the disorder... It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the
physician I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous "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) His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban Kirovskaya Oblast "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
-- Anonymous Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
-- Samuel Butler Kirovskaya Oblast
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 Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman "Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically,
ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion.
-- Fred Rogers, parody of "Row, row, row your boa The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman Kirovskaya Oblast "Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.
-- Londo Molari "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Kirovskaya Oblast
The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
-- Colin Wilson Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor How could they tell?
-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Kirovskaya Oblast ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) Kirovskaya Oblast
"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
-- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron Kirovskaya Oblast To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
--Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr "It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing." (Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises) Kirovskaya Oblast
"An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid." (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th earl of) "Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw "I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does
not stop until you get into the office.
-- Robert Frost Kirovskaya Oblast Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain Kirovskaya Oblast
