Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President "Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) Republic of Komi This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses Republic of Komi
Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) Republic of Komi Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) Republic of Komi
Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine "I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should
live honourably.
-- Kant, Immanuel Republic of Komi I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
wastes to Third Wo Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
-- Anonymous Well, I think that it's a- it's had some difficult times but I think we have- we, I think, have been able
to make some very good progress and it's- I would say that it's- it's- it's delightful that w Republic of Komi
"It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they
can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and
stupid from A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment... it's
exciting to have a real crisis on your hands.
-- Margaret Thatcher, on the Falklands Conflict Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers Republic of Komi "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger Republic of Komi
Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
-- Alphonse Allais "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) 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 We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca Republic of Komi If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy
contests, but they keep the crowd's attention.
-- Anonymous "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) Republic of Komi
Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
-- Oscar Wilde "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley Republic of Komi In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how
many can get through to you.
-- Mortimer J. Adler "Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details." (Andy Warhol, America, 1985) With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln Republic of Komi
We must become the change we want to see.
-- Gandhi In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student Republic of Komi "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson Republic of Komi
Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would
be doing if he were alive today?
1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War.
2) Advising the President.
3) D "In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois 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 Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence Republic of Komi Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
-- Gertrude Stein, dying words Republic of Komi
blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) 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 "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." The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
-- George Bernard Shaw Republic of Komi Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung Republic of Komi
"For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on
tormenting the generations to come.
-- Montesquieu He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez Republic of Komi Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
-- Sidney Goff I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides Republic of Komi
We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) Jake liked his women the way he liked his kiwi fruit: sweet yet tart, firm-fleshed yet yielding to the
touch, and covered with short brown fuzzy hair.
-- Jonathan S. Haas I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
- Bill Hirst Republic of Komi Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Republic of Komi
