"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) Tear open packet, unfold and use.
-- Directions on moist towelette package The nourishment is palatable.
-- Millard Fillmore, dying words The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo Soviet Era Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Soviet Era
By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. -- Socrates If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your
thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be.
-- Richard Mitchell, from Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
pure ignorance?
-- Holbrook Jackson "Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) Soviet Era Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
-- Robert Orben The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein 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 Soviet Era
Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 "I should reproach him for not giving us enough evidence." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970, what he would say to God if they 'met') We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person
perfectly.
-- Anonymous If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
-- Elbert Hubbard If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) Soviet Era Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: "Give little, give seldom, and above all,
give grudgingly." Otherwise, what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of
sexual Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) Soviet Era
The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
ethical infants.
-- General Omar Bradley As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries "Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) Soviet Era What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
-- Woody Allen If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-- Samuel Butler Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
- Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming Soviet Era
I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
-- Oscar Wilde If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who,
doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a
machi Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) 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 "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) Soviet Era It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.
-- Tom Robbins "I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) "Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) Soviet Era
If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
- H. G. Wells This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words "If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, "The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi Soviet Era "Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) Not to anticipate is already to moan.
-- Leonardo da Vinci The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes
in search of martyrdom is that the former expresses his idea most fully in death while the latter
really Soviet Era
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
-- Leslie Jeanne Sahler You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary
to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.'
-- Bierce, A Soviet Era A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
-- Mae West Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. Soviet Era
We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous 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 We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters Soviet Era Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically,
ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion.
-- Fred Rogers, parody of "Row, row, row your boa Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle Soviet Era
The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson >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 Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a
holding pattern over Philadelphia.
-- Judith Viorst A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer Soviet Era The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
-- Oliver Herford Soviet Era
"When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol "Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) Soviet Era "I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde Soviet Era
Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand "The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that.
-- Shakespeare, William Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake Soviet Era It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
-- Antonio Porchi A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous Soviet Era
