"I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
-- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they
oppose it.
-- Sigmund Freud Rostov-on-the-Don Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all
I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it."
-- Jerry Seinfeld "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) "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) Rostov-on-the-Don
Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the
commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete
answer. In fact, women's total ins Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
-- Mae West "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?
-- Michael Meissner Rostov-on-the-Don "We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good
marriage
-- Martin Luther Rostov-on-the-Don
"Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One
looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our
human "Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper Rostov-on-the-Don 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 "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) We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers Rostov-on-the-Don
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 If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm Rostov-on-the-Don "God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed Rostov-on-the-Don
It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
-- Vince Lombardi Facts are the enemy of truth.
- Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha ... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more
aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since
Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all
I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it."
-- Jerry Seinfeld Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
-- Libbie Fudim Rostov-on-the-Don If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken Rostov-on-the-Don
If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept
me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't
everythin Rostov-on-the-Don Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado Rostov-on-the-Don
If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it,
Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me
de How could they tell?
-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler Rostov-on-the-Don If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers "Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers Rostov-on-the-Don
Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken 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 The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Rostov-on-the-Don Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing
changes and yet everything is completely different.
-- Aldous Huxley Rostov-on-the-Don
The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley "I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun Rostov-on-the-Don One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman Rostov-on-the-Don
It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and
cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
-- Tom Robbins The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous "If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair." (Samuel Johnson) Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard Rostov-on-the-Don Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up
our minds to walk boldly through them.
-- Orison Swett Marden Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde Rostov-on-the-Don
This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. Every flower must grow through dirt.
-- Anonymous Rostov-on-the-Don If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
-- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton Rostov-on-the-Don
