blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) 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 An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 Republic of Altai I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
-- Oliver Herford Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim
to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire.
-- Gen. George Republic of Altai
It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window.
You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house.
-- Jean Ke "Drugs have done a lot of good. A lot of good songs have been written. 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. 'Dark Side of the Moon?' 100 dead kids. At least that many were conceived by people listening "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward Republic of Altai Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents "I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always send them a plant to wish them well. Of course, it's a cactus." (Norman B Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain Republic of Altai
He who laughs, lasts.
-- Mary Pettibone Poole "Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em." (William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, II:5) There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Republic of Altai An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford Republic of Altai
"Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat
guy in the third row exists?
-- Woody Allen The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
- unknown Republic of Altai If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "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) I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
-- Adela Rogers St. John Republic of Altai
"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) "Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
-- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell Republic of Altai "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold." (Richard Thalheimer, president, The Republic of Altai
When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall
looking frantic.
-- Steven Wright People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely
to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
-- Terry Cohen "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Republic of Altai Go away...I'm alright.
-- H. G. Wells, dying words If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
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-- Groucho Marx Republic of Altai
It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen 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 Go away...I'm alright.
-- H. G. Wells, dying words "Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Republic of Altai They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to
run his, either.
-- Anonymous "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
-- Oliver Herford Republic of Altai
Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) "In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from
both sides.
-- Margaret Thatcher Republic of Altai "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) Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson "There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) Republic of Altai
"Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that
M&Ms really do melt in your hand...
-- Peter Oakley A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Republic of Altai Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
-- Anonymous The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Republic of Altai
Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-- Stephen Covey When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
- Buckminster Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux "The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson Republic of Altai They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton blah "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Republic of Altai
Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. Republic of Altai Correction: Instead of being arrested, as we stated, for kicking his wife down a flight of stairs and hurling a lighted kerosene lamp after her, the Rev. James P. Wellman died unmarried four years ago Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. Republic of Altai
