Ukrainian Architecture - Series of illustrated articles by various authors, some scholarly, on historic buildings in the Ukraine and built by the Ukrainian community elsewhere.
Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
-- Anonymous A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) Architecture Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing
matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.
-- Amy Bloom The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My
answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer
to that would be Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert Architecture
I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
- Samuel Palmer I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady
in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me.
-- Dick Martin blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I Architecture The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in
every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and Architecture
"Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted.
-- Anonymous In the blithe days of honeymoon,
With Kate's allurements smitten,
I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon,
And call'd her dearest kitten.
But now my kitten's grown a cat,
And cross like other wives.
A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson Architecture The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery Architecture
Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley "Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Architecture At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in
every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and "To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine Architecture
The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
-- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it,
Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me
de Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In
this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
-- Marianne Williamson I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they
are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
-- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man Architecture Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
-- Robert M. Pirsig "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Architecture
Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker 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 "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
-- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 Architecture Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Architecture
Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. we are for the most part
more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.
-- Thoreau "Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e Architecture When Baby's cries grew hard to bear I popped him in the Frigidaire. I never would have done so if
I'd known that he'd be frozen stiff. My wife said, "George, I'm so unhappy! Our darling's now
comple When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't
have done.
-- Malcolm Forbes If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada Architecture
Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet
enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer "Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) Architecture It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett "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 most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge Architecture
Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland "If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the
outward behavior.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle Architecture Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point Not to anticipate is already to moan.
-- Leonardo da Vinci Architecture
To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert "Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) "Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) Architecture I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
-- Oscar Wilde A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Guitry In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford Architecture
We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not
know what to create.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset "The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
-- John Adams, dying words "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood Architecture 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 My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in
bed with her.
-- Lenny Bruce Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley Architecture
