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"Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to
realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and
grie The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have
to shave twice a day.
-- Adlai Stevenson Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-- Bill Stern This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous District A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no
religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear
of "Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and
retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous District
To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins "For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
-- Ray Bandy "A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." (Fred Allen) Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous District There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the
instrument plays itself.
-- Johann Sebastian Bach Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous 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 Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous District
Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) "A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous District Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill Every flower must grow through dirt.
-- Anonymous Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous District
"Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
-- St. Francis of Assisi A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger,
as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is
when you r Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous District You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
-- Buck Henry He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous District
A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their
graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort.
-- Sydney Smith The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man
will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
-- Henry Ford There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!
-- Calvin "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous District blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous District
The nourishment is palatable.
-- Millard Fillmore, dying words "We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous District We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
-- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous District
Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous District When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I ask
is a chance."
-- Anon. "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three
children and no theories.
-- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous District
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 Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is
thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.
-- Henry Wadsworth Lo The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous District The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
-- Publilius Syrus "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous District
There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to
be a coincidence.
-- Jeremy S. Anderson However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf >From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud "What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux." (Thomas Pynchon) Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous District In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent...
-- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported
in a contemporary "American Scholar" You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert "For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous District
Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland "When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door
and just visit now and then.
-- Katharine Hepburn Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous District Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would
be doing if he were alive today?
1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War.
2) Advising the President.
3) D "Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than
the procreation of children.
-- Thornton Wilder Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous District
The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
-- Colin Wilson He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan "If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous District A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crowf Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous District
