Velvet Divorce (and Revolution) - Relationships between the Czechs and Slovaks were always uneasy. After almost half a century of trying to find a compromise the two peoples went their separate way.
"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) Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with
the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover,
The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Czecho-Slovakia 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 Unha I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen Work is a four-letter word.
-- The Smiths (Morrissey) Czecho-Slovakia
Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
-- Albert Einstein The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to
run his, either.
-- Anonymous "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) Man and wife make one fool. Czecho-Slovakia "Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in
opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
-- Sydney Smith For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier Czecho-Slovakia
Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something
different.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine "In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat." (Robert Byrne) "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
bureaucracy won't.
-- Hyman Rickover Czecho-Slovakia If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another
to the world.
-- Antonio Machado "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) Czecho-Slovakia
"True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) "I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France Czecho-Slovakia I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed "I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear ... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived." (Rabbi H Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs Czecho-Slovakia
My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who
take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
-- INDIRA "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a
philosopher.
- Socrates Czecho-Slovakia If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee.
-- Anonymous "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be
feasible.
- A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop Czecho-Slovakia
Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this
is not difficult.
-- Charlotte Whitton Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun Czecho-Slovakia Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
- Samuel Palmer It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot Czecho-Slovakia
Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Czecho-Slovakia Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
-- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 "I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell Czecho-Slovakia
Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde 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.
-- Czecho-Slovakia "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) Czecho-Slovakia
"Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
-- Helen Rowland Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something
different.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find
out how to do it.
-- Theodore Roosevelt Czecho-Slovakia Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off
his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night.
-- Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley O blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin Czecho-Slovakia
Beginning in February 1976 your assistance benefits will be discontinued ... Reason: it has been
reported to our office that you expired on January 1, 1976.
-- excerpt from a letter, Illinois Depart "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) I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown Czecho-Slovakia The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Czecho-Slovakia
The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold "All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. Czecho-Slovakia Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde Czecho-Slovakia
