Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each
other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's
nerves Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each
other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's
nerves A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard Republic of Mordovia Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos 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 Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three
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-- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester Republic of Mordovia
If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
-- Maya Angelou When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
-- Ernest Hemingway The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard Republic of Mordovia America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me
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- Sir Winston Churchill .. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over
myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long
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The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen Republic of Mordovia Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock Republic of Mordovia
"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) And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e "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) Republic of Mordovia 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 My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who
take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
-- INDIRA "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) Republic of Mordovia
"The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) "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 "Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises,
promotions, and other signs of appreciation.
-- Anonymous By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you
will become a philosopher.
-- Socrates Republic of Mordovia I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers Republic of Mordovia
The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute
for life.
-- Andrew Brown For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate,
the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
-- Rainer Maria Ril Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
-- Erica Jong Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law Republic of Mordovia History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde "God is dead: but considering the state Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom) Republic of Mordovia
I didn't accept it. I received it.
-- Richard Allen, National Security Advisor to President Reagan, explaining the $1000 in cash and
two watches he was given by two Japanese journalists after he hel Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem Republic of Mordovia "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill Republic of Mordovia
"The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." (George Bernar Weaseling out of things is good. It's what separates us from the other animals....except weasels.
-- Homer Simpson, character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely
pleased to announce the appointment of David Steele to the post.
-- Philip Streifer, Superintendent Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Republic of Mordovia Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
-- Erica Jong Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
-- James Stephens The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle Republic of Mordovia
If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not
impress the neighbors as being very much.
-- Zora Neale Hurston "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry Republic of Mordovia A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words
that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
-- Alexander Pope Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? I don't feel good.
-- Luther Burbank, dying words Republic of Mordovia
Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
-- Robert Benchley The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and
therefore congenial to it.
-- G. K. Chesterton To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide Republic of Mordovia 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 Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Republic of Mordovia
"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 You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!
-- Calvin That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Louis Berlioz Republic of Mordovia I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) Republic of Mordovia
