The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
write better.
- A. J. Liebling These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.
-- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995 Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet
not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
-- François de La Rouch Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the
commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete
answer. In fact, women's total ins Vladivostok After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley 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 Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
freedom.
-- Albert Einstein Vladivostok
I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it.
And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.
-- George Bus A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Guitry He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to
realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and
grie Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with
the powerful, not to be neutral.
-- Paulo Freire Vladivostok We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous Vladivostok
"One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
-- Anonymous We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. Vladivostok blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
-- Samuel Johnson Vladivostok
When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
the workmanship.
-- John Renmerde Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.
-- Anonymous It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard
Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3 Vladivostok Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
-- Pablo Picasso Vladivostok
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous Vladivostok Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Vladivostok
My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Vladivostok In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent...
-- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported
in a contemporary "American Scholar" "The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." (George Bernar Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwile careers in the
street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack
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Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley "Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley Vladivostok "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is
thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.
-- Henry Wadsworth Lo In the blithe days of honeymoon,
With Kate's allurements smitten,
I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon,
And call'd her dearest kitten.
But now my kitten's grown a cat,
And cross like other wives.
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Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any
antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
-- Alfred Hitchcock Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Vladivostok "To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) "Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." (Gertrude Stein) We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow Vladivostok
Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
-- Sioux Indian Prayer An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) Vladivostok Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The
average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted
to Vladivostok
If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard 'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a
natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend Vladivostok Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
-- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
imagination.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Vladivostok
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 Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers 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 Vladivostok "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer "To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Vladivostok
