Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.
-- Londo Molari A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take
her off his hands.
-- Sacha Guitry I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
-- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it.
And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.
-- George Bus Rostovskaya Oblast Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash Rostovskaya Oblast
"What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature." (Francois Marie Ar "Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this
is true.
-- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday
afternoon.
-- Susan Ertz Rostovskaya Oblast The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him.
-- Cher If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of
something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than
cocaine.
One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles Rostovskaya Oblast
If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the
next meal would come from.
-- Peter F. Drucker Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain When Baby's cries grew hard to bear I popped him in the Frigidaire. I never would have done so if
I'd known that he'd be frozen stiff. My wife said, "George, I'm so unhappy! Our darling's now
comple Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs Rostovskaya Oblast "In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
it.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Rostovskaya Oblast
The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical
deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
-- Albert Einstein Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than
the procreation of children.
-- Thornton Wilder Rostovskaya Oblast He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
-- Terry Cohen Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin Rostovskaya Oblast
There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. "Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra "Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) Rostovskaya Oblast A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no
religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear
of We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as
possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison Rostovskaya Oblast
I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other
friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things:
and in that There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be
paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's
life Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to
vote for Colonel Sanders.
-- Bob Inglis, 1995 Rostovskaya Oblast Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar Rostovskaya Oblast
Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus "An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid." (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th earl of) 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 "It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx Rostovskaya Oblast The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health,
knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
-- Roger Babson Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
-- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 Rostovskaya Oblast
I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
-- Francois-Auguste Rodin, when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) "Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary
to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.'
-- Bierce, A Rostovskaya Oblast The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.
-- Mark Twain I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.
-- Barbara Bush, first lady, 1989 "Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) Rostovskaya Oblast
Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. 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 "Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Rostovskaya Oblast Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. Rostovskaya Oblast
"The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the
top.
-- Ed Abbey Rostovskaya Oblast The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by
trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by l Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this
is not difficult.
-- Charlotte Whitton To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. Rostovskaya Oblast
The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead Women's liberationists spread the word that...the only peaceful family is one in which either the
wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous.
-- R. Emmett Tyell, The Liberal Crack-Up, 1984 "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 it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.
-- Anonymous Rostovskaya Oblast We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were
reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing,
and Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had
never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
-- Orison Swett Marden "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Rostovskaya Oblast
