"I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer Vologda blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of
them, it's considered to be your style.
-- Fred Astaire Vologda
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 Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet
not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
-- François de La Rouch To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley Vologda "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker
room is the temple where they worship arrested development.
-- Russell Baker "When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Vologda
Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them
down people's throats.
-- Howard Aiken If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow Vologda When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his
life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.
-- Francois Cavanna "Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) Vologda
Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra Remember your dreams.
-- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey "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) The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
-- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 Vologda Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning 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 Vologda
"A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill "My daughter has never forgiven me. for what, I don't know, because for years, she won't speak to me. She blackens my name in the press and makes me think abortion is an excellent idea." (Klaus Kinsk Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Vologda >From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea--written in red on every
beachhead form Australia to Tokyo--There is no substitute for victory!
-- General Douglas MacArthur I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I
believed in liberals...
-- G. K. Chesterton I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli Vologda
If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having
passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it.
-- Anonymous The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Vologda We have only one person to blame, and that's each other.
-- Barry Beck, New York Ranger, on who started a fight furing a hockey game "I'll endorse with my name any of the following; clothing AC-DC, cigarettes, small tapes, sound equipment, ROCK N' ROLL RECORDS, anything, film, and film equipment, Food, Helium, Whips, MONEY!!" (And "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Vologda
"I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real senten I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber When you're away, I'm restless, lonely
Wretched, bored, dejected; only
here's the rub, my darling dear,
I feel the same when you are here.
-- Samuel Hoffenstein The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley Vologda If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism. --Heidi Hartmann [The Unhappy Vologda
Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh "All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it,
Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me
de Vologda I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi Vologda
"One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
-- Plutarch In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson
articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are
apparently based Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Vologda Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
-- Ken Dodd Go away...I'm alright.
-- H. G. Wells, dying words Vologda
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 "Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) Vologda Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries Vologda
More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx 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) Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg Vologda A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Vologda
