Russian Mafia: Special Report - Several articles from BBC Online on aspects of and issues regarding the Russian Mafia.
Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
-- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting
married We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw Crime and Justice It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire Crime and Justice
Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) Crime and Justice Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take
what I have to give.
-- Cass Daley How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke Crime and Justice
A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not
"Eureka!", but "That's funny..."
-- Isaac Asimov I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner Crime and Justice blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel Crime and Justice
I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back.
-- Henny Youngman Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the
influences under which he incurred the disorder... It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the
physician If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
-- Albert Einstein "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) Crime and Justice Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best
to become the best you are capable of becoming.
-- John R. Wooden, Practical Modern Basketball Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
-- Byrd Baggett Crime and Justice
"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) Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain Crime and Justice Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of
humor is just common sense, dancing.
-- Clive James Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye Crime and Justice
Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) "A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) Crime and Justice "Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the
purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
-- Anatole France Crime and Justice
I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do
its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.
-- May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really
lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.
-- Herman Melville Crime and Justice There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to
benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.
-- Ralph Mars Crime and Justice
"Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Louis Berlioz The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) 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 Crime and Justice "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-- Carl Gustav Jung No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
-- Booker T. Washington Crime and Justice
blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) "The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words Crime and Justice Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner "Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored..." (Herman Melville, If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker Crime and Justice
Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
-- Beaumont, Francis "I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
-- Ken Dodd People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only
make $500,000.
-- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas Crime and Justice If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
- George Bernard Shaw The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
-- Publilius Syrus Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous Crime and Justice
It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would
have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I
didn' People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create
it herself.
- Anais Nin To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
-- Francois-Auguste Rodin, when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues Crime and Justice Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. "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 Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
- Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming Crime and Justice
