Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history Chernihiv Oblast "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) "Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. Chernihiv Oblast
History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
-- Buckminster After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) Chernihiv Oblast "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus Chernihiv Oblast
There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
car.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Chernihiv Oblast Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. 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 "Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it." (Colin Powell) Chernihiv Oblast
Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous
and dreadful.
-- Samuel Johnson I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that
M&Ms really do melt in your hand...
-- Peter Oakley To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept
me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't
everythin Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
- Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming "I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) Chernihiv Oblast Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) "Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) Chernihiv Oblast
There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
-- Mae West First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi Chernihiv Oblast I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman "Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) Chernihiv Oblast
Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of
poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.
-- John Cage NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows
how to make us disobedient.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 "Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe Chernihiv Oblast "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) "The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only th The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind
woman.
-- S. T. Coleridge Chernihiv Oblast
When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't
natural.
-- Bob Beckel, on term limits, CBS This Morning, 3/30/95 A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) Chernihiv Oblast "It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books--what other men do not say in whole books." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols) I worship the quicksand he walks in.
- Art Buchwald "People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) Chernihiv Oblast
Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos 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 "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) 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 Chernihiv Oblast Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances
continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the
distance Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be
said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot
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A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family.
-- Navaho saying I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning
there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have
people all "I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) Chernihiv Oblast A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw "I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos--especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom ... Rather than starting inside, I start ou Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. Chernihiv Oblast
What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
-- Samuel Johnson The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not
"Eureka!", but "That's funny..."
-- Isaac Asimov It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
-- Emiliano Zapata cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
gone beyond that.
-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic Chernihiv Oblast "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) Chernihiv Oblast
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 You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
-- Robert A. Humphrey 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 important thing is not to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein Chernihiv Oblast The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) Chernihiv Oblast
