We/Myi - The Women's Dialogue - Russian-language magazine for women published bimonthly in Moscow, with each issue summarized and partially translated into English.
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 "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks Issues "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln 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 Issues
Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 Issues The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent
crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry
inspe You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's
arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
-- Jonathan Carroll, Outside Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student Issues
We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." "Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims
of intact ones.
-- Peter DeVries This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers Issues Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure Issues
"And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
-- Buck Henry Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The
premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool.
-- Kelvin Throop I "The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) Issues It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham Issues
I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen "If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
freedom.
-- Albert Einstein 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 If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury Issues Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch Issues
Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and
cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
-- Tom Robbins Here's to you and here's to me,
and I hope we never disagree.
But, if that should ever be,
to HELL with you, here's to ME!
-- Anonymous "I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen
closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping.
-- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash Issues Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
-- Finley Peter Dunne Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas
doctors rob you and kill you too.
-- Anton Chekhov "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Issues
I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 Issues "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay "To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Issues
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 All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is
merely a good excuse not to play football.
-- Fran Lebowitz Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy Issues "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) "I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because
generally they are the same people.
-- G. K. Chesterton Issues
I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including:
* Both of your socks should always be the same color
* Or they should at least both be fairly dark
-- Dave Barry 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 One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the
advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first.
-- Benjamin Franklin "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Issues 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. "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) In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
-- Christopher Morley Issues
The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
-- Carl Zwanzig Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Issues "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) The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain
terrible.
-- Jean Kerr "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) Issues
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
-- J. Heller the social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for
all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation.
-- Peter Issues And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual Issues
