Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and
blows up the bonfire.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Republic of Tuva Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger,
as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is
when you r Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
-- Tom Robbins Republic of Tuva
"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) "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) Republic of Tuva Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman Republic of Tuva
"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 See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
-- Rita Rudner 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 Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali Republic of Tuva I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never
be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
-- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown Republic of Tuva
"I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and
members of the Senate.
-- Dan Quayle, Former Vice-President Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle Republic of Tuva "I offer images; I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached ... But, we can only open the doors. We can't drag people through. I can't free them unless they want to be free--more than any There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
-- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Republic of Tuva
"The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) "Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone Republic of Tuva "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
-- Will Rogers The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST Republic of Tuva
Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) Why doesn't she like me? Is it my hair, my overbite, the fact that I've worn the same shirt and
shorts for the last four years?
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated tele Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais Republic of Tuva He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't
certain we knew better.
-- George Bird Evans Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley
Temple could do it at the age of four.
-- Katharine Hepburn Republic of Tuva
The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper "To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes
in search of martyrdom is that the former expresses his idea most fully in death while the latter
really "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! Republic of Tuva "If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." (Albert Einstein) Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop
questioning.
-- Albert Einstein In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
-- Christopher Morley Republic of Tuva
Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV Republic of Tuva The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich "There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-- Ambrose Bierce Republic of Tuva
Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
-- Erma Bombeck Honor lies in honest toil.
-- Grover Cleveland blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Republic of Tuva "Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." (Dylan Thomas) The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My
answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer
to that would be The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Republic of Tuva
"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 Spinster: A bachelor's wife. "To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me!
-- Henry Ford I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane Republic of Tuva "A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) Republic of Tuva
The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other
is ready.
-- Henry David Thoreau The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) Republic of Tuva It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.
-- General Douglas MacArthur Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall Republic of Tuva
