When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life
of another.
-- Helen Keller "If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the
table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the
disg Kaniv "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, "When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." (Friedrich Wilhelm Ni I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed Kaniv
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you
can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist.
-- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they
can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and
stupid from Kaniv Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) In the end, everything is a gag.
- Charlie Chaplin Kaniv
"Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
-- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George bernard Shaw Kaniv I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
-- Albert Einstein If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins Kaniv
"Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown 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 Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses Kaniv UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton Kaniv
It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
-- Benjamin Disraeli 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 Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Kaniv I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes Kaniv
Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future
generations "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker Kaniv "The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi "I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Kaniv
We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder How could they tell?
-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died Kaniv "Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same
joke and still feel lonely.
-- T. S. Eliot Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken Kaniv
The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind
woman.
-- S. T. Coleridge "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) This compact disc is made from analog masters recorded without noise reduction. Half the tracks,
in fact, were recorded in a dismal, cheap basement eight-track studio with puddles of water on
the fl A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell 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 Kaniv There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a
natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman Kaniv
Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with
the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
-- Cynthia Heimel Kaniv 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 "We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) Kaniv
A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
-- Sidney Goff The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken Kaniv Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard "Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) All television is children's television.
-- Richard P. Adler Kaniv
It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a
few grains of corn now and then."
-- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
-- Isaac B. Singer My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood Kaniv Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) Kaniv
