The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. "Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if
possible, speak a few reasonable words.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor Republic of Kalmykia "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." (Alexander Pope) "When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." (Friedrich Wilhelm Ni Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw Republic of Kalmykia
Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating
influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the
commun "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
-- Elvis Presley There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to
be a coincidence.
-- Jeremy S. Anderson The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll Republic of Kalmykia If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac Republic of Kalmykia
"In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
-- Edgar Watson Howe "Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman 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 Republic of Kalmykia "We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. Republic of Kalmykia
Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through
self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
-- Helen Keller Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre "I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats." (Woody Allen, in regard to the KKK) "Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) Republic of Kalmykia "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. "I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George Republic of Kalmykia
Spinster: A bachelor's wife. Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you
get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a
Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours Republic of Kalmykia A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) 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 Republic of Kalmykia
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 "Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
-- Byrd Baggett Republic of Kalmykia Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Republic of Kalmykia
An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry "Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be
closed for any other business.
-- Abraham Lincoln A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who
marries a man to reform him.
-- Elbert Hubbard Republic of Kalmykia blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism. --Heidi Hartmann [The Unhappy If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire Republic of Kalmykia
"Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield Republic of Kalmykia In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson
articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are
apparently based I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
-- Mother Teresa A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous Republic of Kalmykia
If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't
take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates...
-- Anonymous Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. Republic of Kalmykia Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
-- Beaumont, Francis ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 Republic of Kalmykia
Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
-- Rory Bremner For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims
of intact ones.
-- Peter DeVries What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
-- Margaret Mead Republic of Kalmykia University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) 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 Republic of Kalmykia
Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been
widely regarded as a bad move.
-- Douglas Adams Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting Republic of Kalmykia Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy
together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back
on at While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) Republic of Kalmykia
