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"I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite
without any wish to act.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
-- Polish proverb "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) "It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W Samarskaya Oblast "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to
do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did.
-- Anonymous Samarskaya Oblast
Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke "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 The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill "Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day." (Ali bin I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 Samarskaya Oblast A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero blah "You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Samarskaya Oblast
Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things.
-- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: "Give little, give seldom, and above all,
give grudgingly." Otherwise, what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of
sexual Samarskaya Oblast "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert Samarskaya Oblast
I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Samarskaya Oblast "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Guys are lucky because they get to grow mustaches. I wish I could. It's like having a little pet for
your face.
-- Anita Wise The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper Samarskaya Oblast
Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
-- Phillip Brooks Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would not live forever, because
we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live
forever, "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) Samarskaya Oblast If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) 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 Samarskaya Oblast
He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
-- J. Heller 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 "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) 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 When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with
the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover,
Samarskaya Oblast ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
-- Albert Einstein Samarskaya Oblast
The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they
can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and
stupid from This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright Samarskaya Oblast A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn
themselves to a life of vinegar.
-- Countess of Blessington Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Samarskaya Oblast
If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
bureaucracy won't.
-- Hyman Rickover The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
-- Erica Jong Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw Samarskaya Oblast "Those who feel certainty are stupid and those with any imagination or understanding are filled with doubt and indecision." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The
premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool.
-- Kelvin Throop I If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. Samarskaya Oblast
Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
-- Alphonse Allais Samarskaya Oblast Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin Samarskaya Oblast
blah "You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we
were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
-- John Stuart Mill Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde Samarskaya Oblast I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White "We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. Samarskaya Oblast
"Think off-center." (George Carlin) Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement
speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have
th When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims
of intact ones.
-- Peter DeVries The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
-- Albert Einstein Samarskaya Oblast My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. Samarskaya Oblast
