Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on
tormenting the generations to come.
-- Montesquieu "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-
proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe
is Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
-- George Jean Nathan 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 Tomskaya Oblast This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin Tomskaya Oblast
When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
- George Washington Carver "In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor Tomskaya Oblast "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 Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm "In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Tomskaya Oblast
Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson "From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) Tomskaya Oblast Health food makes me sick.
-- Calvin Trillin It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed.
They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position.
-- John Hogan, Commonwealth "Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) Tomskaya Oblast
There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good
marriage
-- Martin Luther America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover Tomskaya Oblast "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
-- Rita Rudner Tomskaya Oblast
As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in
a car he sticks his head out the window.
-- Steve Bluestone Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson Tomskaya Oblast Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. Tomskaya Oblast
"Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald "In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how
many can get through to you.
-- Mortimer J. Adler If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman Tomskaya Oblast "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James Tomskaya Oblast
The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton Tomskaya Oblast "It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) Tomskaya Oblast
In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
-- Christopher Morley Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi There is more to life than increasing its speed.
-- Gandhi 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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"Hello Kitty is an icon that doesn't stand for a Tomskaya Oblast "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer Tomskaya Oblast
It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett 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 "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) "When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wro Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu Tomskaya Oblast A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright "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) The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde Tomskaya Oblast
The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived
in this century. I didn't live in this century.
-- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic "I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-- Anonymous Tomskaya Oblast The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you
don't know. He knows now that he doesn't know. Last year, he didn't know that.
-- Bill Parcels, New Engla Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" Tomskaya Oblast
Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. Tomskaya Oblast LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the
influences under which he incurred the disorder... It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the
physician The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 Tomskaya Oblast
