"The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first
comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of
suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room.
-- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch Republic of Ingushetia Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) Republic of Ingushetia
Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins Not to anticipate is already to moan.
-- Leonardo da Vinci All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it
is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
-- Red Buttons "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) Republic of Ingushetia I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they
oppose it.
-- Sigmund Freud Republic of Ingushetia
"If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a
brand new ending.
-- Anonymous "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) Republic of Ingushetia In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. "One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price. I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Republic of Ingushetia
The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) Republic of Ingushetia A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills "The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Republic of Ingushetia
And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all
I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it."
-- Jerry Seinfeld The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines
staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you
ask th Republic of Ingushetia I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
-- Oscar Wilde Republic of Ingushetia
Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
-- Samuel Butler People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Republic of Ingushetia He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that
no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
-- Paul Dirac Republic of Ingushetia
Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward Republic of Ingushetia We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe "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 Republic of Ingushetia
"I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford Republic of Ingushetia "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
-- Colin Wilson Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
- Paul Erdos Republic of Ingushetia
The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy
the waking hours much more.
-- Woody Allen Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton "Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin Republic of Ingushetia My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
-- Finley Peter Dunne "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Republic of Ingushetia
"Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He
experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of
optic "Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is
something everybody believes, except the person who made it.
-- Albert Einstein, attributed True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau Republic of Ingushetia When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his
cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that
Uncl It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant Republic of Ingushetia
Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of
suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room.
-- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately
becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in
those tiny toil With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly good I thee endow.
-- Wedding Vow, Book of Common Prayer There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the
instrument plays itself.
-- Johann Sebastian Bach Republic of Ingushetia I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils Republic of Ingushetia
