"To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the
second, "For my best friend."
-- Anonymous Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams Penzenskaya Oblast "It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau 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) Penzenskaya Oblast
That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own
language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce "Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) Penzenskaya Oblast Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason Penzenskaya Oblast
If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-- Samuel Butler Just buy a box of popcorn and a Coca-Cola and sit back and watch.
-- James Carville, Clinton advisor, offering advice for Democrats on the term-limits vote in the
House Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
- Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment... it's
exciting to have a real crisis on your hands.
-- Margaret Thatcher, on the Falklands Conflict Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it.
-- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long Penzenskaya Oblast Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx Penzenskaya Oblast
The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of
pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.
-- Lyster It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais Penzenskaya Oblast If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover Penzenskaya Oblast
An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy
contests, but they keep the crowd's attention.
-- Anonymous "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) 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' A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little Penzenskaya Oblast "The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi Study men, not historians.
-- Harry Truman Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon Penzenskaya Oblast
Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 "Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day." (Ali bin 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 I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Penzenskaya Oblast In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how
many can get through to you.
-- Mortimer J. Adler You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West Penzenskaya Oblast
"We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous "In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
-- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting
married Penzenskaya Oblast 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 Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 Penzenskaya Oblast
"Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells "The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi Penzenskaya Oblast The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) Penzenskaya Oblast
Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg "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) The more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
-- Mark Twain Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at
the same time.
- Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair Penzenskaya Oblast "If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
a fortune Just buy a box of popcorn and a Coca-Cola and sit back and watch.
-- James Carville, Clinton advisor, offering advice for Democrats on the term-limits vote in the
House Penzenskaya Oblast
The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
and bought jewelry.
-- Rita Rudner There is more to life than increasing its speed.
-- Gandhi Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain Penzenskaya Oblast If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the
faculty of laughter.
-- Joseph Addison A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe "People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult." (Anne Penzenskaya Oblast
The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the
false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
-- Salvador Dali And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery Penzenskaya Oblast I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks Penzenskaya Oblast
