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Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of
responsibility at the other.
-- Ronald Reagan, Saturday Evening Post, 1965 When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is
when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.
-- Marcel Achard Novgorod "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 "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Novgorod
Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
- Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
-- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward Novgorod "It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books--what other men do not say in whole books." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols) The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and
remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't
work and the Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw Novgorod
You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Novgorod "Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the
writing will be just as it should be.
-- Mark Twain But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell Novgorod
To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France "For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-- Stephen Covey Novgorod 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 "Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) Novgorod
"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) Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
-- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery Novgorod As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust
there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
-- Andre Norton Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with
the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover,
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It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for
love is measured by fullness, not by reception.
-- Harold Loukes I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they
study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.
-- Gerald Early, writer, baseball do The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald Novgorod "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly Novgorod
A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) Novgorod Jake liked his women the way he liked his kiwi fruit: sweet yet tart, firm-fleshed yet yielding to the
touch, and covered with short brown fuzzy hair.
-- Jonathan S. Haas "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) Novgorod
Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
-- Albert Einstein Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois "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) Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous Novgorod Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier Novgorod
"One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and
blows up the bonfire.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
-- Seen on a t-shirt A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
-- Christopher Morley Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw Novgorod Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell Novgorod
A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too.
When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing
extraordinary It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
-- Mae West "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc
jockey is not allowed to talk.
-- Fran Lebowitz Novgorod The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
- Lucille S. Harper When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
- George Washington Carver "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) Novgorod
Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. Novgorod "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 Novgorod
