The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle Cherkasy Oblast Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover Cherkasy Oblast
My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model.
Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush...
-- Dawn French We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
-- Woodrow Wyatt I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde Cherkasy Oblast What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
-- Woody Allen "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. Cherkasy Oblast
"The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is n UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere Cherkasy Oblast The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron "The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." (George Bernar One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if
possible, speak a few reasonable words.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Cherkasy Oblast
This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
-- Robert Browning Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban Cherkasy Oblast "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry We must become the change we want to see.
-- Gandhi Cherkasy Oblast
Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
-- Brian Pickrell Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein Cherkasy Oblast "I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves
beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
-- Al Rogers, Global SchoolHouse Netw Cherkasy Oblast
When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his
life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.
-- Francois Cavanna "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence Cherkasy Oblast "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, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two
slaves, making in all, two.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is
the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be
cr Cherkasy Oblast
When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his
life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.
-- Francois Cavanna The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) Cherkasy Oblast There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to
learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
-- Michel de Montaigne ... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more
aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since
The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One
cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the
marvelous str Cherkasy Oblast
Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
neighborhood.
-- Maya Angelou In view of all the deadly computer viruses that have been spreading lately, Weekend Update
would like to remind you: when you link up to another computer, you're linking up to every
computer that th Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it
doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever
sea Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
automobile.
-- Billy Sunday Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung Cherkasy Oblast "We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
-- Anonymous And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses Cherkasy Oblast
Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary
to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.'
-- Bierce, A Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
-- Erma Bombeck Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Cherkasy Oblast It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing. "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous Cherkasy Oblast
Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom "I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers Cherkasy Oblast I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
-- Mother Teresa 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 Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the
custom of shaving.
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All Cherkasy Oblast
Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the
next meal would come from.
-- Peter F. Drucker Cherkasy Oblast The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again.
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show Cherkasy Oblast
