Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take
what I have to give.
-- Cass Daley If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.
-- Anonymous The west wasn't won on salad.
-- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 "The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee.
-- Anonymous Saratovskaya Oblast Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard
Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3 "The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) "When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." (Friedrich Wilhelm Ni Saratovskaya Oblast
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 Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston "It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books--what other men do not say in whole books." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols) Saratovskaya Oblast Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde Saratovskaya Oblast
Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
bathroom in the middle of it.
-- Nick Mirov What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust
there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
-- Andre Norton "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are.
-- Gore Vidal Saratovskaya Oblast When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Saratovskaya Oblast
"There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips." (Elsa Lanchester) Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
-- Woody Allen A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers Saratovskaya Oblast We must become the change we want to see.
-- Gandhi "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware;
those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software.
-- Unknown author, Levitating T Saratovskaya Oblast
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already
were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Saratovskaya Oblast The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer Saratovskaya Oblast
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 mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without
feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex,
the ugl A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
-- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers Saratovskaya Oblast Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first
comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last Saratovskaya Oblast
Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment.
-- Voltaire It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves
great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates
the I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous Saratovskaya Oblast Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
-- John Tudor In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves
beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
-- Al Rogers, Global SchoolHouse Netw The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
-- Robert M. Pirsig Saratovskaya Oblast
All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein "We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Saratovskaya Oblast 'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey Saratovskaya Oblast
blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf 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 A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke
or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
-- Charles Brower "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) Saratovskaya Oblast Good friends are good for your health.
-- Irwin Sarason If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. Saratovskaya Oblast
Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of
responsibility at the other.
-- Ronald Reagan, Saturday Evening Post, 1965 Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Saratovskaya Oblast To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide "Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken Saratovskaya Oblast
Honor lies in honest toil.
-- Grover Cleveland "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
-- Albert Einstein There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi Saratovskaya Oblast Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
-- Martin Mull >From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some
day I intend reading it.
-- Groucho Marx "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) Saratovskaya Oblast
