"Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details." (Andy Warhol, America, 1985) Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
-- Bhagava Gita What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov Tul'skaya Oblast This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review 2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time.
-- inside of a Pepsi cap There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house
as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
-- Homer, Odyssey, ninth century Tul'skaya Oblast
There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) "Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it." (Colin Powell) Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. Tul'skaya Oblast A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwile careers in the
street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack
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A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want,
and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.
-- Fred Astaire "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) 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 The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
-- Niels Bohr Tul'skaya Oblast "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain Tul'skaya Oblast
Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely
pleased to announce the appointment of David Steele to the post.
-- Philip Streifer, Superintendent Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb Tul'skaya Oblast "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
-- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein Tul'skaya Oblast
Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't
natural.
-- Bob Beckel, on term limits, CBS This Morning, 3/30/95 Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best
to become the best you are capable of becoming.
-- John R. Wooden, Practical Modern Basketball "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 Tul'skaya Oblast Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can
only read the title.
-- Virginia Woolf "To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) Tul'skaya Oblast
There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and
discipline.
-- Michel de Montaigne Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
-- Red Buttons "Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi "I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so Amer Tul'skaya Oblast As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. Tul'skaya Oblast
Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of
suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room.
-- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde Every flower must grow through dirt.
-- Anonymous Tul'skaya Oblast It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx Tul'skaya Oblast
Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
-- Sigmund Freud He who laughs last didn't get it.
-- Helen Giangregorio Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
-- Shane Leslie The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine Tul'skaya Oblast If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would
be able to endure it.
-- Schopenhauer Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Tul'skaya Oblast
The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There
are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's
reall "From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde Tul'skaya Oblast "If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
-- Gloria Leonard "A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Tul'skaya Oblast
Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when
people laugh.
-- George Bernard Shaw Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein Tul'skaya Oblast "If I were still a critic, I would loathe knowing the person I was writing about. There's enough of an incestuous relationship between subject and writer." (Manny Farber, American film theorist) I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.
- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life Tul'skaya Oblast
He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens "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) What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) "Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart Tul'skaya Oblast My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in
bed with her.
-- Lenny Bruce Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous "It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Tul'skaya Oblast
