Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
happen to him.
-- John Barrymore - last words Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you
underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford Kostromskaya Oblast "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton Kostromskaya Oblast
"Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark
in one another.
-- Kenny Ausubel "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne Kostromskaya Oblast To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
-- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous Kostromskaya Oblast
Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
-- G. K. Chesterton "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." (Mark Twain) Kostromskaya Oblast No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
-- Booker T. Washington "What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux." (Thomas Pynchon) Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken Kostromskaya Oblast
I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me
is another matter.
- Sir Winston Churchill Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
-- Beaumont, Francis The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
imagination.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant Kostromskaya Oblast "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) "Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) Kostromskaya Oblast
"The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary
to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.'
-- Bierce, A Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde "To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Kostromskaya Oblast "All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler Kostromskaya Oblast
I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-- Dorothy Parker "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James "I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs
long enough."
-- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh Kostromskaya Oblast You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
-- Gertrude Stein, dying words Kostromskaya Oblast
Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard "One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price. I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I Kostromskaya Oblast "What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux." (Thomas Pynchon) "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams Kostromskaya Oblast
"Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Kostromskaya Oblast I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming Kostromskaya Oblast
That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to
do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did.
-- Anonymous Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) Kostromskaya Oblast A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde Kostromskaya Oblast
The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) Kostromskaya Oblast Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman 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 Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii Kostromskaya Oblast
He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
-- Publilius Syrus The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to
contact us.
-- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his ownself in his own hands. Like water. And if he
opens his fingers then- he needn't hope to find himself again.
-- Robert Bolt from A Man For All Seas "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
-- Albert Einstein Kostromskaya Oblast There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux Kostromskaya Oblast
