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 The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
-- Publilius Syrus "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) "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 Pskovskaya Oblast "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) One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
reputation.
-- Oscar Wilde Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 Pskovskaya Oblast
"I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) "If I were still a critic, I would loathe knowing the person I was writing about. There's enough of an incestuous relationship between subject and writer." (Manny Farber, American film theorist) All you need is love.
-- The Beatles, song title Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-- Groucho Marx Pskovskaya Oblast "The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is n If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. we are for the most part
more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.
-- Thoreau Pskovskaya Oblast
"Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me!
-- Henry Ford 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 One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do
what he was afraid he couldn't do.
-- Henry Ford Pskovskaya Oblast your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) Pskovskaya Oblast
Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous Pskovskaya Oblast Women's liberationists spread the word that...the only peaceful family is one in which either the
wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous.
-- R. Emmett Tyell, The Liberal Crack-Up, 1984 Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats 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 Pskovskaya Oblast
People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only
make $500,000.
-- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain "Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we
respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
-- H. L. Mencken If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton Pskovskaya Oblast "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx 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 Pskovskaya Oblast
Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to
us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
-- Jeff Raskin My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and
joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not
as We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement
speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have
th Pskovskaya Oblast "Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too
conservative.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. He who laughs, lasts.
-- Mary Pettibone Poole Pskovskaya 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 No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. Tear open packet, unfold and use.
-- Directions on moist towelette package "Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) Pskovskaya Oblast We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was
60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is.
-- Ellen DeGeneres "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) Pskovskaya Oblast
Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on
a date.
-- Caroline Rhea Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin "A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Pskovskaya Oblast "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi "Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it." (Colin Powell) Pskovskaya Oblast
Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) 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 The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best
to become the best you are capable of becoming.
-- John R. Wooden, Practical Modern Basketball Pskovskaya Oblast "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." "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor Pskovskaya Oblast
All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen
closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping.
-- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more
they possess.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke Pskovskaya Oblast Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart "Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. Pskovskaya Oblast
When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already
were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is
simply one of those things which happen from time to time.
-- Edward P. Tryon Pskovskaya Oblast Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its
prime function of looking forward.
-- Margaret Fairless Barber "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Pskovskaya Oblast
