"Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) "I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.
-- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley Ryazanskaya Oblast "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
reputation.
-- Oscar Wilde The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx Ryazanskaya Oblast
The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
time "Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
-- Robert A. Humphrey Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 Golf is a good walk spoiled.
-- Mark Twain Ryazanskaya Oblast This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes
time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.
-- Fred Astaire Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman "I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear ... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived." (Rabbi H Ryazanskaya Oblast
"There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen Ryazanskaya Oblast "Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard)." (Edgar R. Fiedler) "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying Ryazanskaya Oblast
Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it,
there will be a fish.
-- Ovid In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the
unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is
also the m My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley Ryazanskaya Oblast Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld The nourishment is palatable.
-- Millard Fillmore, dying words What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples'
decisions for them?
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All Ryazanskaya Oblast
"Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) Man is a natural polygamist. He always has one woman leading him by the nose and another
hanging on to his coattails.
-- H. L. Mencken A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa Ryazanskaya Oblast The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen "People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) Ryazanskaya Oblast
Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins Ryazanskaya Oblast Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for
half the money.
-- Arthur Godfrey It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen Ryazanskaya Oblast
Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does
come, we no longer exist.
-- Epicurus War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if
he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli 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 An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr Ryazanskaya Oblast If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber Ryazanskaya Oblast
Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it
doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever
sea Ryazanskaya Oblast It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith 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 The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows Ryazanskaya Oblast
When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West "Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem
mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's
chara The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
- Lucille S. Harper Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
automobile.
-- Billy Sunday Ryazanskaya Oblast "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Ryazanskaya Oblast
Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. Ryazanskaya Oblast I tried a mail order bride, once, but she was damaged in the mail, and I had to return the unused part for my full refund. Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin blah blah blah blah blah "This is the way the world ends: not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot) _end]
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The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos Study men, not historians.
-- Harry Truman "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) Ryazanskaya Oblast "By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett Ryazanskaya Oblast
