The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes
in search of martyrdom is that the former expresses his idea most fully in death while the latter
really "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing
popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.
-- Dave Barry Nizhyn The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue.
-- Anonymous Honor lies in honest toil.
-- Grover Cleveland Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins Nizhyn
In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
-- Christopher Morley The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde 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 We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins Nizhyn Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Steven Wright Nizhyn
I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put
over my kitchen table.
-- Rodney Dangerfield There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has
come.
-- Victor Hugo Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of
fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality
and I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde Nizhyn "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm
upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in
the palm Nizhyn
The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent...
-- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported
in a contemporary "American Scholar" "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) Nizhyn What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want,
and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.
-- Fred Astaire Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle Nizhyn
Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry "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 Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) Nizhyn What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the
slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional
convi Nizhyn
"Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
-- Anonymous I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford "Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours." (Dale Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx Nizhyn "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) "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 "I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) Nizhyn
"Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavours to live the life which
one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
-- Henry David Thoreau Nizhyn "One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner Nizhyn
Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust
there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
-- Andre Norton 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 "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) Nizhyn A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana Nizhyn
The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun "If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) Nizhyn blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy
together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back
on at "I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou Nizhyn
"Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There
are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's
reall Nizhyn "You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
-- Mae West Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
-- B.F. Skinner Nizhyn
"There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) "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) If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of
something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than
cocaine.
The child is the father of the man.
-- William Wordsworth Nizhyn "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) The nourishment is palatable.
-- Millard Fillmore, dying words Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner Nizhyn
