Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis 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 Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for
themselves.
-- F. Emerson Andrews Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door
and just visit now and then.
-- Katharine Hepburn "Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) Nizhegorodskaya Oblast "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for
comprehensive health care during a candidates' forum, said he supported "erection-to-
resurrection" coverage. He later a Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde Nizhegorodskaya Oblast
Health food makes me sick.
-- Calvin Trillin "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence "The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) Nizhegorodskaya Oblast "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) "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) Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde Nizhegorodskaya Oblast
We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us.
-- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius "A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it." (Claude Rains, as Mr. Dryden, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." (Alexander Pope) Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The
premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool.
-- Kelvin Throop I Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn
themselves to a life of vinegar.
-- Countess of Blessington Nizhegorodskaya Oblast I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're
the boss."
-- Anonymous Nizhegorodskaya Oblast
I still live.
-- Daniel Webster, dying words Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if
he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli "You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston Nizhegorodskaya Oblast He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
one.
-- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri Nizhegorodskaya Oblast
"It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are
certain, they do not refer to reality.
-- Albert Einstein The more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
-- Mark Twain Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz Nizhegorodskaya Oblast "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) Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright Nizhegorodskaya Oblast
If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of
suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room.
-- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills Nizhegorodskaya Oblast "I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way
to bet.
-- Damon Runyan Nizhegorodskaya Oblast
Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
-- Plutarch A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer Nizhegorodskaya Oblast Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were
reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing,
and Nizhegorodskaya Oblast
A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke
or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
-- Charles Brower Honor lies in honest toil.
-- Grover Cleveland "Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer "Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Nizhegorodskaya Oblast "Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
-- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf Nizhegorodskaya Oblast
The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) Dear Mrs, Mr, Miss, or Mr and Mrs Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action. -- C Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha Nizhegorodskaya Oblast "Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from
both sides.
-- Margaret Thatcher Nizhegorodskaya Oblast
"Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another
to the world.
-- Antonio Machado If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Nizhegorodskaya Oblast A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family.
-- Navaho saying If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun Nizhegorodskaya Oblast
If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
-- Scott Adams Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
--Loesje I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') Nizhegorodskaya Oblast This compact disc is made from analog masters recorded without noise reduction. Half the tracks,
in fact, were recorded in a dismal, cheap basement eight-track studio with puddles of water on
the fl When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche "The feminists used to say that chivalry and ladyhood were ways of keeping women down and preventing them from standing toe to toe with the guys. Now you've got a lot of women saying that if a guy is Nizhegorodskaya Oblast
