Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
-- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how
to make it interesting.
-- Milton Berle, when called to the microphone at the 2nd Annual Comedians Hal Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels Volga - Vyatsky Area Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-- Stephen Covey Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Anonymous Volga - Vyatsky Area
"Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. "I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always send them a plant to wish them well. Of course, it's a cactus." (Norman B A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) Volga - Vyatsky Area You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu Volga - Vyatsky Area
Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. "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) Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz Volga - Vyatsky Area Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." Volga - Vyatsky Area
Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon "Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it "When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) "It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality." (Francois Sagan) Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams Volga - Vyatsky Area Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-- Anonymous Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous Volga - Vyatsky Area
Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
day into your answers.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson "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) An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy
contests, but they keep the crowd's attention.
-- Anonymous Volga - Vyatsky Area "For others do I wait ... for higher ones, stronger ones, more triumphant ones, merrier ones, for such as are built squarely in body and soul: laughing lions must come." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I still live.
-- Daniel Webster, dying words There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
-- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 Volga - Vyatsky Area
Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday
afternoon.
-- Susan Ertz I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) "I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) Volga - Vyatsky Area The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to
substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
-- Iris Murdoch "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) "The bite of conscience, like the bite of a dog into a stone, is a stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Volga - Vyatsky Area
There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein "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 Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words Volga - Vyatsky Area No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers Volga - Vyatsky Area
If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin 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 Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass
produced with unskilled labor.
-- Wernher von Braun "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) Volga - Vyatsky Area The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country
could do under first-class management.
-- Senator Soaper "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Volga - Vyatsky Area
Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito Volga - Vyatsky Area The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf Volga - Vyatsky Area
"Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw "College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) Volga - Vyatsky Area Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing
popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.
-- Dave Barry "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury Volga - Vyatsky Area
"The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward Volga - Vyatsky Area There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
-- Anonymous He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
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